Sentences with phrase «between glacial conditions»
Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is 6 °C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and ice - free Antarctica.»
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
During the last part of the Pleistocene there were actually five major periods of glaciation with four periods of warmer non glacial conditions between them.
The last deglaciation occurred as a long process between peak glacial conditions (from ~ 26 - 20,000 years ago) to the Holocene (~ 10,000 years ago).
Dr. Soon: Earth's climate system dynamically oscillates between icehouse and hothouse conditions in geological time or, to a lesser degree, between the glacial and interglacial climates of the last 1 — 2 million years.
Big changes (and 2 - 3 °C would be a huge difference, having in mind that the difference between glacials and interglacials is only about 4 °C) in climatic conditions would also bring big changes to where people can live on this planet.
(29) Another respected climatologist explained that the old view of «a grand, rhythmic cycle» must be replaced by a «much more rapid and irregular succession,» in which the Earth «can swing between glacial and interglacial conditions in a surprisingly short span of millennia (some would say centuries).»
J, You said: «The model being debated here would imply truly massive swings in CO2 between glacial and interglacial conditions (on the order of 1000 ppmv fluctuations).
After the initial development of glacial conditions, the Earth system alternated between two modes, one of cold temperatures and growing glaciers and the other of relatively warm temperatures (although much cooler than today) and retreating glaciers.