What is Eemian?
[[File:EPICA delta D plot.svg|thumb|right|Two ice core temperature records; the Eemian is at a depth of about 1500–1800 meters in the lower graph]] [[File:Carbon Dioxide 400kyr.png|thumb|right|CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations in Earth's atmosphere]] The '''Eemian''' was the last [[interglacial period]] of the [[Pleistocene]]. It began about 130,000 years ago, and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the last [[glacial period]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/nature11789| pmid = 23344358| title = Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core| journal = Nature| volume = 493| issue = 7433| pages = 489–94| year = 2013| last1 = Dahl-Jensen | first1 = D.| last2 = Albert | first2 = M.R.| last3 = Aldahan | first3 = A.| last4 = Azuma | first4 = N.| last5 = Balslev-Clausen | first5 = D.| last6 = Baumgartner | first6 = M.| last7 = Berggren | first7 = A-M. | last8 = Bigler | first8 = M.| last9 = Binder | first9 = T.| last10 = Blunier | first10 = T.| last11 = Bourgeois | first11 = J.C.| last12 = Brook | first12 = E.J.| last13 = Buchardt | first13 = S.L.| last14 = Buizert | first14 = C.| last15 = Capron | first15 = E.| last16 = Chappellaz | first16 = J.| last17 = Chung | first17 = J.| last18 = Clausen | first18 = H.B.| last19 = Cvijanovic | first19 = I.| last20 = Davies | first20 = S.M.| last21 = Ditlevsen | first21 = P.| last22 = Eicher | first22 = O.| last23 = Fischer | first23 = H.| last24 = Fisher | first24 = D.A.| last25 = Fleet | first25 = L.G.| last26 = Gfeller | first26 = G.| last27 = Gkinis | first27 = V.| last28 = Gogineni | first28 = S.| last29 = Goto-Azuma | first29 = K.| last30 = Grinsted | first30 = A.| display-authors = 29| bibcode = 2013Natur.493..489N| s2cid = 4420908| url = http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/500331/1/2012-07-09846-NEEM_revised.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_5241_f09/media/Readings/shackletonetal.pdf|doi=10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00181-9|title=Marine Isotope Substage 5e and the Eemian Interglacial|journal