In 2013, he returned to Oxford where much of his current research aims to document and understand past climate variability, particularly during exceptionally warm intervals of Earth history, such as the Cretaceous. (royalsociety.org)
Below you'll hear from scientists with significant concerns about keystone sections of the paper — on the evidence for «superstorms» in the last warm interval between ice ages, the Eemian, and on the pace at which seas could rise and the imminence of any substantial uptick in the rate of coastal inundation. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The Pliocene is a paradox when compared to other Cenozoic warm intervals because global mean temperatures were 2 — 3 °C warmer than present (Dowsett, 2007), despite levels of atmospheric CO2 that were only slightly higher than preindustrial levels (Fedorov et al., 2006). (pubs.geoscienceworld.org)