Global climate maps for the last 24,000 years were recently published in the journal Nature. This map allows us to see climate change over that time period for all regions of the world.
"This is the first time you can really go through and get a very personal view of climate evolution in a place that matters to you," said Matthew Osman, a climatologist at the University of Arizona, and lead author of the study.
"I hope what this is doing helps instill a sense of how severe climate change is right now," he said.
This map was created by comparing sediment cores, which contain temperature records over thousands of years, with historical climate models.
"This (finding) represents a fundamental reassessment of our understanding of climate change over the last 20,000 years," Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute, wrote on Twitter.
"It now seems much clearer that the current warming was unprecedented, at least before the last ice age."
This picture should be enough to make us rethink the extent of the damage done to the places where we live. What if Earth reached the point of uninhabitable temperatures in the near future? Of course, serious steps are needed to deal with this problem. Not only from experts and the government, everything can be started from small steps we can take to protect the Earth.