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Lafiel said:

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I cut this one out of a script to a paleontology-reading I had.
It's not the best either, because the image was pretty small in the script and I stretched the image a bit to enlarge the area which interests us. Unfortunately there is no good y-axis marking in this one aswell, but atleast we have some absolute values to go by and not just relative values as in the other graph.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

note, that the time axis is variable, as indicated - the various lines are different results you get from analysis of several ice cores - the black line is the absolute average of those ice cores - there is a small line through the holocene period marking the 14.1°C degrees global average temperature, which we see as the (current) climate optimum

I think I found a "cleaner" version of that graph:

I don't think we are going to find a good graph short of an email to someone with direct access to the data but I think for our purposes this is good enough. I think it is still important to keep in mind that this graph only covers the Holocene interglacial and doesn't even show what other interglacials were like. Considering that even within our own IGP these fluctuations are well within normal I think it is fair to say that other IGP data (which shows warmer periods) is just icing on the cake.

edit: PS - I'm done for the night, found and took notes on a bunch of new graphs to help beef up my collection of material to draw on.  The hard part is keeping things current!