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MIS 1 = the Holocene, and the numbers increase the further back in time we go. The peak of the Eemian is referred to as MIS - e.
It's easily explained at;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_isotope_stage
The second suggestion I have is a return to the more collegial air that prevailed at Neven's sites until rather recently. It only takes a few extra keystrokes to write "I believe you may be mistaken" than to scribble "Screw you, you're wrong".
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recent blog post on the topic: http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2018/08/circumnavigating-greenland.html
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Warning From Scientists — Halt Fossil Fuel Burning Fast or Age of Superstorms, 3-20 Foot Sea Level Rise is Coming Soon
First the good news. James Hansen, one of the world’s most recognized climate scientists, along with 13 of his well-decorated fellows believe that there’s a way out of this hothouse mess we’re brewing for ourselves. It’s a point that’s often missed in media reports on their most recent paper — Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, and Superstorms. A paper that focuses on just two of the very serious troubles we’ll be visiting on ourselves in short order if we don’t heed their advice.
The way out? Reduce global carbon emissions by 6% each year and manage the biosphere such that it draws carbon down to 350 ppm levels or below through the early 22nd Century. To Hansen and colleagues this involves a scaling carbon fee and dividend or a similarly ramping carbon tax to rapidly dis-incentivize carbon use on a global scale. Do that and we might be relatively safe. Safe, at least in the sense of not setting off a catastrophe never before seen on the face of the Earth. That’s pretty good news. Pretty good news when we consider that some of the best climate scientists in the world see an exit window to a hothouse nightmare we’re already starting to visit upon ourselves.
The bad news? According to Hansen and colleagues, even if we just continue to burn fossil fuels and dump carbon into the atmosphere at a ‘moderate’ pace some of the terrifically catastrophic impacts of human caused climate change are not too far off.
It’s worth noting that the 5-9 meter sea level rise during the Eemian occurred in the context of global temperatures that are now similar to our own (1-2 C above 1880s values).
But it’s also worth considering that the underlying CO2 and greenhouse gas conditions for the current age are far, far worse.
As the undersides of ice shelves erode and more fresh water laden ice bergs are pulled out into the ocean, these ice bergs begin to melt en mass. This massive ice melt develops into an enormous and expanding pool of fresh water at the surface.
And its this troublesome demon that traps heat in the deeper ocean levels.
So, in other words, as the ice from the land glaciers floats away and melts it traps and focuses more heat at the base of these great glaciers.
It’s an amplifying feedback...
In the worst case (5-10 year melt rate doubling times), it’s possibly
>>3 meters of sea level rise by mid Century, perhaps
>>7 meters by end Century under business as usual fossil fuel emissions.
Even in the more moderate cases (10-20 year melt rate doubling times),
>>1 meter of sea level rise by mid Century and
>>3 meters or more of sea level rise by end Century is not entirely out of the question
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