Our team, led by Anton Vaks, have just put out this rather lovely manuscript in Nature Comms showing that the northern hemisphere was permafrost free during a period when temperatures were ca. 4.5 degrees warmer - similar to runaway climate change. Have a look! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Speleothem records from caves in Arctic Siberia allow for the reconstruction of multiannual air temperatures during the late Miocene (8.68±0.09 million years ago). These temperatures suggest that Eura...