My work also concerns past, present, and future stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, as well
as palaeoclimate - archaeologic links in the high Andes.
Not exact matches
In trying to answer this question, some scientists (such
as Dr Schmidt) refer to the
palaeoclimate record.
I'm chagrined to report that I sailed across the site of the 1452 eruption in 1975, but did not recognize the Kuwae caldera's island remnants
as such,
as I was searching the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) for archaeological lithic sources, not
palaeoclimate clues.
Your point 4: «The early onset of sustained, significant warming in
palaeoclimate records and model simulations suggests that greenhouse forcing of industrial - era warming commenced
as early
as the mid-nineteenth century and included an enhanced equatorial ocean response mechanism.
Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy.To the denialists, the scientists» scathing remarks about certain controversial
palaeoclimate reconstructions qualify
as the proverbial «smoking gun»: proof that mainstream climate researchers have systematically conspired to suppress evidence contradicting their doctrine that humans are warming the globe.
If non-CO2 GHGs such
as N2O and CH4 increase with global warming at the same rate
as in the
palaeoclimate record and atmospheric chemistry simulations [122], these other gases provide approximately 25 % of the greenhouse forcing.
The goal of PAGES» LandCover6k Working Group is to use pollen, archaeological and historical data to provide information on past land cover and land use change that can be used to evaluate and improve Anthropogenic Land - Cover Change (ALCC) scenarios for
palaeoclimate modelling and the study of land - use
as a climate forcing.
Hansen and his colleagues summarise the challenge
as follows: «If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilisation developed and to which life on earth is adapted,
palaeoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385ppm [parts per million] to at most 350ppm.»
Had the warming of the late 20th century been caused by a wobble in ocean currents
as Ferrara insists, such a wobble would be plainly evident within
palaeoclimate records.