The enhanced sputtering of graphite at temperatures above 1000 K has been investigated for a variety of incident ion species and energies. Papyex graphite strips were irradiated with 35 to 150 keV H, C, O, and Ar ions in the temperature range from 300 to 1800 K, and with 0.13 to 8 keV H ions at 1800 K. Sputtering yields were determined by weight change measurements, and were compared in many cases with yields determined by in-situ ion beam analysis of collector probes. For temperatures above 1000 K, enhanced sputtering yields are found which increase with temperature to 6 to 20 times room temperature values at 1800 K. At a given temperature, measured yields for all species and energy combinations scale with the nuclear deposited energy at the surface and do not correlate with electronic losses. The low energy H measurements indicate a transferred energy threshold of ∼ 5 eV for the enhanced erosion process, significantly lower than the displacement threshold energy in graphite of 30 eV. The enhanced erosion is characterized by an activation energy which varies from 0.5 to 1.1 eV with decreasing incident particle mass. The overall results, together with recently reported velocity and mass spectra of the sputtered particles, suggest a radiation-enhanced sublimation mechanism.