Will look at the Dome
C ice core data in detail once I finish with the solar influence papers.
Maya: for the longest direct record of CO2, look at the EPICA Dome
C ice core data.
Not exact matches
Figure 2 shows our
data together with earlier results from the Dome
C (650 — 390 kyr bp4 and 22 — 0 kyr bp5), Vostok1, 2,3 (440 — 0 kyr bp) and Taylor Dome6 (60 — 20 kyr bp)
ice cores resulting in a composite CO2 record over eight glacial cycles.
So the
ice core data says Greenland can get a heck of a lot hotter before all its
ice will melt — in fact, 30 deg
C hotter.
By comparing the atmospheric CO2 increase (note that since CO2 is well - mixed in the atmosphere, a single
ice core record can be used as an accurate representation for CO2 - Shakun et al. used the Antarctic EPICA Dome
C ice core for CO2
data) to these many different temperature records, Shakun et al. are able to discern whether the CO2 increase led or lagged temperature changes in various different geographic locations, and for the planet as a whole.
If we had a linear relationship, adding another 180 ppm to get to doubling of the pre industrial revolution level (if you believe
ice core data) we would have an additional 1.3 degress
C warming, not the 2 to 5 degrees projected by the more conservative climate models.