The Long-Standing Mystery of Climate Change Resolved Written by AZoCleantechJan 28 2021 According to a study under the guidance of Rutgers University, the main mystery behind climate change has been resolved by the researchers, which shows that the current yearly global temperature is the warmest of the last 10,000 years—in contrast to recent research. Rutgers scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution on IODP Expedition 363 in 2016, including (left to right) Gregory Mountain, Tali Babila, Samantha Bova, and Yair Rosenthal. Image Credit: IODP-JRSO. The study has been published in the journal Nature. The long-term mystery is known as the “Holocene temperature conundrum,” with few skeptics claiming that climate model forecasts of future warming must be incorrect. The researchers add that their results will contradict the long-held opinions on the temperature history in the Holocene era, which started around 12,000 years ago.