climatic optimum

[klī′mad·ik ′äp·tə·məm]

(climatology)

The period in history (about 5000-2500 B.C.) during which temperatures were warmer than at present in nearly all parts of the world.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Climatic Optimum

the warmest time in every warm climatic phase of the Anthropogenic (Quaternary) period. The climatic optimum can be distinguished for all the interglacials as well as for the Holocene (postglacial climatic optimum).

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We arerising from the Maunder Minimumcold period, which followed the Lesser Climatic Optimum, when temperatures were higher than now, in about 1,000 AD.

The real inconvenient truth

Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM2; ~53.7Ma) or Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO).

Endemic vs cosmopolitan tethyan benthic foraminifera from the lower Eocene Panoba Formation, Kohat sub basin, Pakistan: implications for early Eocene warming

The Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO), recorded ~17 to 15 Ma, represents one of the warmest periods of the last 30 million years (Zachos et al., 2001; Shevenell et al.

Palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Aragonian (middle Miocene) mammalian faunas from the Madrid Basin based on body-size structure

Dinoflagellates, cercozoa, eustigmatophytes, and haptophyte algae responded most dramatically to the gradual increase in salinity after the latest marine reconnection and during the warm and moist mid-Holocene climatic optimum.

Black Sea 'goldmine of ancient genetic data'

The Holocene marine layer's maximum extension represents the paleoshoreline during the Holocene climatic optimum (4000BC), when the sea level was at its highest.

The geomorphic history of the Ainoura plain, Kyushu, Japan, based on excavation of the Monzen ruins

Temperatures would have to rise considerably before they exceeded those in the "climatic optimum" 5,000 years ago and there is no good reason to believe that they will.

Worrying about global warming is farcical

Like other Siberian researchers, Khlobystin recognizes that any humans in far northern Siberia removed southward during the cold period (roughly correlated with the Younger Dryas) that followed the interstadial, leaving the region unpopulated until warmed by the climatic optimum. Thus the earliest clearly attested and lasting occupations in the far North appeared in the period he classes as Mesolithic (a concept he discusses at length, given the variation in usage among Russian authors).

Taymyr: The Archaeology of Northernmost Eurasia

Some authors suggest dry mid-Holocene conditions (Prieto 1996), while others interpret the record as evidencing a moister mid-Holocene climate (from 8500 RCYBP to 3500 RCYBP), based on the concept of "Climatic Optimum" or Hypsithermal (Iriondo 1999; Krohling 1999; Krohling and Iriondo 1999).

Human occupation and paleoenvironments in South America: expanding the notion of an "Archaic Gap"

"Positive Feedbacks" contains those changes deemed the "biological" origins of modernity in other words, the effects of the "Little Climatic Optimum" on climate, land use, agricultural practice and their concurrent effect on population growth.

At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000

They did not exist during the "climatic optimum", which ended in the Bronze Age.

Climate change?