«Warming pulses in
ancient climate record link volcanoes, asteroid impact and dinosaur - killing mass extinction.»
Meanwhile striking news came from studies of
ancient climates recorded in Antarctic ice cores.
As yet, no one has touched the waters of a subglacial lake with so much as a drill bit, but a Russian group that has been coring ice over Lake Vostok to get
ancient climate records is coming close.
Meanwhile important news came from studies of
ancient climates recorded in Antarctic ice cores, retrieved by a French and Russian team from one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
Not exact matches
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from
climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human
record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in
ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.
Sediment core samples drawn from Lake Titicaca, South America's largest freshwater lake, have revealed a 25,000 - year precipitation
record that may rewrite the books on
ancient climate.
Researchers reconstructing
ancient climates delve into the mineral for a
record of temperature and atmospheric composition, environmental conditions and the state of the ocean at the time those minerals formed.
We have historical
records of people complaining that the
climate was going «mad» in 18th century Paris or even in
ancient Rome.
Their findings have stirred a lot of skepticism in the community of specialists examining
ancient records of past
climate changes and how they might relate to variations in Earth's orbit and orientation toward the Sun and other factors.
Ice sheets contain a
record of hundreds of thousands of years of past
climate, trapped in the
ancient snow.
From the University of California — Berkeley Deep sediments are unparalleled
record of biotic changes over past 200,000 + years University of California, Berkeley, scientists are drilling into
ancient sediments at the bottom of Northern California's Clear Lake for clues that could help them better predict how today's plants and animals will adapt to
climate change...
We call it «natural»
climate change and
ancient and historical
climate records are replete with it.
Studying ice cores shows how
ancient ice contains
records of Earth's past
climate.
Using this
ancient evidence, scientists have built a
record of Earth's past
climates, or «paleoclimates.»