By Jo Nova
Last year, like every other year, was the hottest variation of something.
All the Blob Media reported the latest trivia in unison, with identikit headlines and matching Pantone Bright Red color.
2025 was the third warmest year on record
For some reason, despite their Pulitzer prizes, and daily acknowledgement of Dreamtime culture — none of the legacy media journalists remembered that prehistory even existed. It’s like 99% of the last 10,000 years never happened. The Stone-age, Iron-age, Egyptians, Sumerians, Greeks — all, Phht. Not one of the “journalists” asked any of these scientists whether it was misleading to focus on the last 150 years when we had thermometers, when it was hotter for thousands of years, and there was no coal plant in sight.
The media is all bread and circuses. It’s a performance art designed to distract us and stop us noticing things that matter. Like the heat in the Holocene, and like the giant volcano called Hunga Tonga. (More on that soon).
Since the first Turks carved out stone pillars at Göbekli Tepe 11,000 years ago, there have easily been 3,000 years hotter than 2025. And we know this because sea levels were higher all around the world from 4,000 to 7,000 years ago. The climate was so different then, fish swam in the Sahara desert. and 4,000 bits of hunting gear and personal possessions froze solid in Norwegian ice that would not melt for 3,000 years.
Göbekli Tepe By Kerimbesler
Sea level have been falling for 7,000 years in Western Australia — one of the most stable and ancient pieces of land in the world. (Lewis et al). How could the world be cooler than today and the seas be 2 meters deeper?
It’s the same all around the world. In Taiwan giant oysters lived 3 meters above the current waterline. In Africa along thousands of kilometers of the entire west coast sea levels have been falling as the world cooled for thousands of years. (Vacci et al).
Hundreds of Pacific islands were “born” out of the ocean as sea levels fell in the last 7000 years. (Kench et al)
Human civilization was born in the hot Holocene and yet somehow we and the corals survived just fine….
Tell the children they called it The Holocene Optimum.
REFERENCES
Lewis, S.E., et al., Post-glacial sea-level changes around the Australian margin: a review, Quaternary Science
Reviews (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.006 [abstract] (paywalled).
Kench, P.S., Liang, C., Ford, M.R. et al. (2023) Reef islands have continually adjusted to environmental change over the past two millennia. Nat Commun 14, 508 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36171-2
Vacchi, M., Shaw, T.A., Anthony, E.J. et al (2025) . Sea level since the Last Glacial Maximum from the Atlantic coast of Africa. Nat Commun 16, 1486 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56721-0