The termination of the Younger Dryas cooling event occurred within a decade.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent peer-reviewed sources (Dansgaard et al. 1989, Taylor et al. 1993) and NOAA synthesis citing Alley 2000, showing abrupt decadal-scale warming at Younger Dryas termination, with minor variation in exact timescale (10-20 years). [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Climate change - Abrupt Changes, Earth History, Impacts (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/339532a0 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/3%20The%20Younger%20Dryas%20-FINAL%20NOV%20(1).pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.261.5118.195 (corroboration)