Sentences with phrase «ancient climate with»

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The researchers started with a state - of - the - art climate model for Mars — one that assumes an ancient atmosphere composed largely of carbon dioxide (as it is today).

Together with the new study from Tabun, the data suggest that ancient humans did not master fire until hundreds of thousands of years after they expanded into cold climates.

With this compelling demonstration of using ancient soil samples as proxies for regional climate in Asia, Caves now plans to extend his investigations elsewhere on the globe.

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

Ancient animals, however, might give us an insight into how modern animals might fare with our predicted climate change.

The sequencing of the oldest mammalian genome from an ancient polar bear jawbone provides clues about these animals» fraught relationship with climate change

A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

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.

The lander was armed with a robot arm to burrow into the soil, a laser to analyse the atmosphere and oodles of other high - tech gadgets to analyse the past and present Martian climate and help unravel the planet's ancient history.

The findings are based on analyses of ancient plant leaf wax found in the sediments of the Gulf of Guinea in combination with computer models of the climate system.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet's extensive network of valleys.

MEACHEM: We would really love to discover some more mammal fossils down there and what we're really hoping to get out of these mammal fossils is some good ancient DNA, that will tell us about the conditions that these animals lived in and how DNA or genes changed with climate.

Ancient civilizations also struggled with climate change just as the modern world is struggling today.

The research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is today.

So GISS climate modeler Michael Way took a topographic map of Venus based on findings from another mission, filled in the lowlands with an ocean of water, and ran the global climate model to simulate the climate of ancient days on Venus.

Although the Cretaceous, 145 to 66 million years ago, was a period known for its extreme greenhouse climate, a new study shows that this ancient warming was interrupted with a significant cold snap.

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it is important not to elide the history of climate science, a relatively young work in progresss, with the mature and ancient art of advertisining.

Reason being: those companies use climate models to identify the likely current locations where ancient sedimentary basins originally formed that collected the organic material that eventually, with time, climate change, sediment accumulation and continental drift, became petroleum reservoirs.

Scientists plumbing the depths of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean have found ancient sediments suggesting that one proposed way to mitigate climate warming — fertilizing the oceans with iron to produce more carbon - eating algae — may not necessarily work as envisioned.

Or as the archaeologists have done with sun spots and ancient cultures — and the correlation with climate and agricultural practices?

Although the Middle East is not currently rebounding from an ice age, the scientists say those ancient rebounds have things in common with the way the climate is changing today: Rainfall is decreasing and higher temperatures are causing more evaporation that is drying up the land.

Like «champagne bottles being opened»: Scientists document an ancient Arctic methane explosion What could possibly go wrong, ignoring climate change, the warnings or clues from what science tells us, even if we were just creating a better world with clean energy, and millions of new jobs?

We call it «natural» climate change and ancient and historical climate records are replete with it.

Although the topic of his talk was something entirely different (about ancient Persia) the similarities with the climate debate were striking.

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.

The IntCal13 calibration curve is not related to climate or solar activity, and is based on the amount of ¹⁴ C found at each tree ring (or speleothem growth) with the goal of being able to date ancient biological materials.

For their study, Hansen and his colleagues combined ancient paleo - climate data with new satellite readings and an improved model of the climate system to demonstrate that ice sheets can melt at a «non-linear» rate: rather than an incremental melting as Earth's poles inexorably warm, ice sheets might melt at exponential rates, shedding dangerous amounts of mass in a matter of decades, not millennia.

There are now several alternative proxy measures of ancient climate change, but the δ18O data (figure 1a) of Zachos et al. [4], a conglomerate of the global ocean sediment cores, is well suited for our purpose as it covers the Cenozoic era with good temporal resolution.

Like Tvauri explains, these heat storage hypocausts rather common in 14th - 15th century Livonia — where the climate was much colder compared to the Central and Western Europe — were born combining the ancient method of heat storage (stones) used by the indigenous inhabitants of present day Finland, Estonia, and Latvia in their saunas for hundreds of years with the hypocaust technology originating from Rome used by monks and religious orders.

Unfortunately, they conveniently ignore (or are unaware) the empirical evidence that climate change is a constant, which has produced ancient and geological era extremes in weather and temperatures - extremes that science has confirmed with a cornucopia of peer - reviewed research.

According to Lynas, the six - degree world can be considered only with the aid of pale - climate «analogues» — ancient worlds in which conditions were far, far warmer than anything known today.

Neither extreme is consistent with evidence about ancient climates.

The clues from those ancient people match up with evidence of the climate change event from Greenland ice cores.