The Eemian does not exist according to the geological naming system. All the previous cycles are stuffed into a single epoch by the name of Pleistocene. Then the current interglacial is given an epoch all to itself by the name of the Holocene. So the current interglacial is treated in a very different way, even in how it is named. This introduces a bias that this current interglacial is unique, but it is not. It is only from the perception of a human lifetime that the Earth is stable. Geologists are not immune from that bias and certainly in the past there was good reason to suspect that the
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