To answer this question properly it would be necessary to view climate
cycles over hundreds of thousands of years.
Not exact matches
Over hundreds of thousands of years, the Neandertal lineage developed successfully in western Eurasia and survived severe fluctuations between colder and warmer climactic
cycles of the Ice Age.
As Don Easterbrook and others note, hardly a significant length in temperatures that can
cycle over hundreds and even
thousands of years, caused by either solar input changes or circulations within the oceans.
But, he said, the study «clearly could have important implications for better quantifying and characterizing our assessment
of climate variations
over decadal to tens to
hundreds of thousands of years cycles.»
«Although these events played out
over hundreds or
thousands of years, the magnitude
of the changes, in carbon dioxide levels for example, are similar to those
of the last 150
years resulting from human influence on the carbon
cycle.