Not exact matches
We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change
from more boring sources like global
temperature averages, or the extent of global sea
ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in
ice cores.
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The researchers studied
temperature measurements over the last 150 years,
ice core data
from Greenland
from the interglacial period 12,000 years ago, for the
ice age 120,000 years ago,
ice core data
from Antarctica, which goes back 800,000 years, as well as data
from ocean sediment
cores going back 5 million years.
Thompson notes another sobering consequence: Without
corings from tropical
ice packs in the future, researchers will lose a valuable way to reconstruct
temperature and precipitation patterns in the tropics for the last several thousand years.
It's OK to state that, «The common belief that carbon dioxide is driving climate change is at odds with much of the available scientific data: data
from weather balloons and satellites,
from ice core surveys, and
from the historical
temperature records» when this is clearly untrue.
Clow measured twice, once in 2011 and again in 2014, the
temperature in a 3.4 - kilometer - deep (2 - mile - deep) borehole
from which the West Antarctic Sheet Divide
ice core had been drilled during an eight - year project that ended in 2011.
For instance, in the Tropics the
temperature variations were three times as intense as today at the height of the last glacial, whereas the
ice cores from Greenland indicate variations that were 70 times as intense.
They range
from LANDSAT images of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, to fish catches off California since the 1920s, to 400,000 years of global
temperature estimates
from antarctic
ice cores.
«
Ice cores only tell you about temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 yea
Ice cores only tell you about
temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an
ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 yea
ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 years.
But the
ice core - derived climate records
from the Andes are also impacted
from the west — specifically by El Niño, a temporary change in climate, which is driven by sea surface
temperatures in the tropical Pacific.
Ice cores from Greenland and West Antarctica suggest that average global
temperatures quickly shot up during that time.
Ice core data
from the poles clearly show dramatic swings in average global
temperatures, but researchers still don't know how local ecosystems reacted to the change.
Late this past summer researchers and engineers
from France, Italy and Russia extracted three
ice cores from France's Col du Dôme Glacier in a race to preserve valuable information about climate change before rising
temperatures wash it away.
Analysing new data
from marine sediment
cores taken
from the deep South Atlantic, between the southern tip of South America and the southern tip of Africa, the researchers discovered that during the last
ice age, deep ocean currents in the South Atlantic varied essentially in unison with Greenland
ice -
core temperatures.
Utilizing the high resolution of the measurements, the team was able to detect methane fingerprints
from the Southern Hemisphere that don't match
temperature records
from Greenland
ice cores.
«The first step was to reconstruct the history of global mean
temperatures for the last 784,000 years, using combined data
from marine sediment
cores,
ice cores, and computer simulations covering the last eight glacial cycles,» said Friedrich, a post-doctoral researcher at IPRC.
The past climates that forced these changes in
ice volume and sea level were reconstructed mainly
from temperature - sensitive measurements in ocean
cores from around the globe, and
from ice cores.
Ice cores extracted
from deep within a Himalayan glacier leave little doubt that the earth's
temperatures are on the rise.
Five millennia of surface
temperatures and
ice core bubble characteristics
from the WAIS Divide deep
core, West Antarctica.
Researchers took a
core sample of the
ice from the cave, giving scientists their first records of winter
temperatures in the region.
Further information comes
from proxies (
ice cores, tree rings,...), which give (less exact) information about
temperature and some of the primary actors of the past.
Variations of deuterium (δD; black), a proxy for local
temperature, and the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO2 (red), CH4 (blue), and nitrous oxide (N2O; green) derived
from air trapped within
ice cores from Antarctica and
from recent atmospheric measurements (Petit et al., 1999; Indermühle et al., 2000; EPICA community members, 2004; Spahni et al., 2005; Siegenthaler et al., 2005a, b).
study published June 25 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Greenland
ice core drifts notably
from other records of Northern Hemisphere
temperatures during the Younger Dryas, a period beginning nearly 13,000 years ago of cooling so abrupt it's believed to be unmatched since.
The existence of a Little
Ice Age from roughly 1500 to 1850 is supported by a wide variety of evidence including ice cores, tree rings, borehole temperatures, glacier length records, and historical documen
Ice Age
from roughly 1500 to 1850 is supported by a wide variety of evidence including
ice cores, tree rings, borehole temperatures, glacier length records, and historical documen
ice cores, tree rings, borehole
temperatures, glacier length records, and historical documents.
Plotting GHG forcing (7)
from ice core data (27) against
temperature shows that global climate sensitivity including the slow surface albedo feedback is 1.5 °C per W / m2 or 6 °C for doubled CO2 (Fig. 2), twice as large as the Charney fast - feedback sensitivity.»
SST data
from the tropical Atlantic, Greenland and Antarctic
ice cores and some tropical land
temperatures).
It uses Ammonium concentration
from an
ice core in tropical South America (the eastern Bolivian Andes) as a proxy for
temperature.
By W. Jackson Davis, Peter J. Taylor and W. Barton Davis Abstract We report a previously - unexplored natural
temperature cycle recorded in
ice cores from Antarctica — the Antarctic Centennial Oscillation (ACO)-- that has oscillated for at least the last 226 millennia.
The researchers used the measured
temperatures from these two sites and the isotope data
from the
ice core from the overlapping time period (a method called «scaling») to quantitatively reconstruct earlier
temperature variations.
Five millennia of surface
temperatures and
ice core bubble characteristics
from the WAIS Divide deep
core, West Antarctica, Paleoceanography, 31 (3), p. 416 - 433.
Using
ice cores from three of Svalbard's glaciers, she and her colleagues have reconstructed a thousand years of variations in winter
temperatures for Longyearbyen and for Vardø at the northeastern tip of mainland Norway.
This was based on research by Baillie and McAneney (2015) which compared the spacing between frost ring events (physical scarring of living growth rings by prolonged sub-zero
temperatures) in the bristlecone pine tree ring chronology, and spacing between prominent acids in a suite of
ice cores from both Greenland and Antarctica.
The authors compared recently constructed
temperature data sets
from Antarctica, based on data
from ice cores and ground weather stations, to 20th century simulations
from computer models used by scientists to simulate global climate.
This was a relatively stable climate (for several thousand years, 20,000 years ago), and a period where we have reasonable estimates of the radiative forcing (albedo changes
from ice sheets and vegetation changes, greenhouse gas concentrations (derived
from ice cores) and an increase in the atmospheric dust load) and
temperature changes.
Not to mention that we KNOW levels of CO2 are higher than they have been in hundreds of thousands of years, and data
from dendrochronology and
ice core studies prove that high levels of CO2 are correlated with higher
temperatures.
The CO2 level comes
from half a dozen different
ice core analyses, while the
temperature data come
from marine sediments, pollen analyses, isotopes, corals etc..
>... there are still ways of discovering the
temperatures of past centuries,... tree rings...
Core samples
from drilling in
ice fields... historical reconstruction... coral growth, isotope data
from sea floor sediment, and insects, all of which point to a very warm climate in medieval times.
Indeed it was Law Dome, not the Taylor Dome... I had written that
from memory, but as my memory is not anymore what it was 40 years ago... What I meant was a graph on the Internet, showing the Law Dome
ice core CO2 variations, lagging the
temperature variations with some 50 years (with ~ 10 ppmv / K, similar to the factor found over the Vostok
ice core trends).
Further information comes
from proxies (
ice cores, tree rings,...), which give (less exact) information about
temperature and some of the primary actors of the past.
And we can extrapolate the
temperature from the Antarctic
ice core to the rest of the world.
KERRY: It's a conclusion based on established physics and on evidence gathered
from satellite data, ancient
ice cores,
temperature stations, and fossilized trees and corals.
We don't really know the magnitude of that lag as well as Barton implies we do, because it is very challenging to put CO2 records
from ice cores on the same timescale as
temperature records
from those same
ice cores, due to the time delay in trapping the atmosphere as the snow is compressed into
ice (the
ice at any time will always be younger older than the gas bubbles it encloses, and the age difference is inherently uncertain).
Look at this plot by John McLean of
temperatures from Greenland
ice cores for the last 11,000 years.
Proxies are used by paleoclimatologists and include
ice cores, tree rings, lake sediments (varves), pollen counts, or anything that results
from temperature or precipitation changes.
Another graph of
temperatures from the Greenland
ice core for the past 10,000 years is shown in Figure 5.
Based on the GISP2
ice core proxy record
from Greenland it has previously been pointed out that the present period of warming since 1850 to a high degree may be explained by a natural c. 1100 yr periodic
temperature variation (Humlum et al., 2011).
data
from ice cores shows that
temperature has been regulated inside the same bounds for ten thousand years.
The
ice cores reflect air
temperatures from when the
ice was deposited.
Figures A and B show past variations in the global mean
temperature inferred
from direct measurements (A) and
from the analysis of
ice -
cores (B).
A study using data taken
from fossils and
ice cores finds that long - term
temperature variability decreased four-fold
from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) around 21,000 years ago to the start of the Holocene around 11,500 years ago.