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Finally he does put a figure on the contribution of CO2 and others to the total glacial cycle at around half — the figure I have seen more recently is 40 %.

We recently extended this record to approximately 120,000 years BP in order to track vegetation change over a full glacial cycle at millennial to orbital timescales.

Not exact matches

Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles.

Now, using two deep cores collected at two Ocean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cycles.

Patrick Crill, an American biogeochemist at Stockholm University, says ice core data from the past 800,000 years, covering about eight glacial and interglacial cycles, show atmospheric methane concentrations between 350 and 800 parts per billion in glacial and interglacial periods, respectively.

«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.

«We started from scratch and she wanted to know glacial cycles, rate of deforesting, solar variability — all of the issues that could impact climate and why I think that humans are the main driver of climate change,» he explained afterward at a debriefing with colleagues at a pub on Capitol Hill.

Having briefly glanced at it, his main argument seems to come from overlaying the CO2 records at the same stage of different glacial cycles, and that seems quite hard to do, to me — William]

Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next glacial period would begin at least 50,000 years from now, even in absence of human - made global warming (see Milankovitch cycles).

Huybrechts, P., 2002: Sea - level changes at the LGM from ice - dynamics reconstructions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during the glacial cycles.

The combination of insolation at high latitude, solar irradiance, cloud cover, and carbon dixoide concentrations all combine to influence glacial cycles.

To understand the causes of glacial cycles, I looked at relevant data (northern polar circle summer insolation) and used the computer code by Laskar et al 1993 to compute future insolations.

Having briefly glanced at it, his main argument seems to come from overlaying the CO2 records at the same stage of different glacial cycles, and that seems quite hard to do, to me — William]

The conclusion that they survived over at least two glacial cycles, where the amplitude of environmental change in the Arctic is quite large, suggests they have under natural conditions the ability to adapt / survive such changes.

That's believed to be a crucial causal link in Milankovitch - driven glacial cycles, last I heard at least.

When you look at the changes in Arctic temps during the warming side of glacial cycles, temps and co2 rise almost immediately.

Only this past year I've come to understand we are at a climate high point, a sort of plateau, in the glacial - interglacial cycle.

It is true that during ice ages the oceans took up more CO2 and that is why there was less in the atmosphere, and during the warming at the end of glacial cycles that CO2 came back out of the ocean, and this was an important amplifying feedback.

So really it's the gain of the temperature - convection feedback that's at stake, and if it were high enough to fully offset all radiative effects on temperature, there'd be some obvious symptoms — low natural variability and glacial cycles perfectly correlated with insolation perhaps.

In the natural cycle regarding long term natural climate change caused by Milankovitch cycles, at least for the past million years or so, the sensitivity response to changes is indicated to alter the global temperature by 6º Celsius between warm periods and glacial periods.

But a major problem exists for the standard orbital hypothesis of glaciation: Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene glacial cycles occur at intervals of 40 ky (8 — 11), matching the obliquity period, but have negligible 20 - ky variability.

«We knew there were changes in carbonate chemistry of the surface ocean associated with the large - scale glacial - interglacial cycles in CO2 [levels], and that these past changes were of similar magnitude to the anthropogenic changes we are seeing now,» says study co-author William Howard, a marine geologist at ACE.

Müller, C. Reconstruction of the paleontological conditions at the Laptev Sea continental margin during the last two glacial / interglacial cycles based on sedimentological and mineralogical investigations.

However, the change in incoming solar radiation — insolation — at this timescale is small, and therefore difficult to reconcile with the amplitude of the glacial cycles.

Gerald Bond found evidence of cosmogenic isotope changes at each of a long series of warming followed by cooling events (he has able to track 25 events through current interglacial Holocene and into the last glacial period, at which point he reached the limit of the range of the proxy analysis technique) which indicates a solar magnetic cycle change caused the warming followed by cooling cycle.

As part of ENSO cycles such droughts come and go — and have been typical for the region for (at least) all of the Holocene up to the Last Glacial Maximum some 20,000 years ago, research shows.

See, for example, Richard A. Muller, «Glacial cycles and orbital inclination,» Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report LBL - 35665 (1994), available at http://www-physics.lbl.gov­/www/astro­/nemesis­/LBL-35665.html.

We can see this ceiling temperature nailed every transition from glacial to interglacial cycle today at least as far as temperature proxies in ice cores going back a million years are accurate.

One perfect storm, say a deep solar minimum, Milankovitch cycle in the glacial phase, continents arranged as they are today, and a supervolcano eruption all at the same time would probably trigger another snowball earth episode which has happened a few times in the past few billion years.

Glacials happen when the 100,000 year Milankovitch orbital cycle is such that summer irradiance in high northern latitudes is at its lowest point — allowing the persistence of ice fields.

If solar was the only force at play, and milankovich forcings were strong enough without feedbacks to control the glacial cycle, then the SH and NH would have antiphased glacial cycles.

Lindzen was only able to keep the «iris» ball in the air for as long as he did because prior to the advent of AIRS the upper troposphere was an especially hard place to get accurate measurements, and by completely ignoring paleoclimate, e.g. the conflict between the «iris» and the Pleistocene glacial cycles, and the fact that prior to the Pleistocene higher CO2 levels led to temperatures that kept glaciers from existing at all (the latter having been firmed up only recently, to be fair).

It does seem that the long - term cooling trend underlying the glacial / interglacial cycling flattened out at about the time that the 41 - to - 100 kyr shift occurred.

CO2 as a feedback («lagging factor») in the glacial cycles is not a contradiction of modern greenhouse theories or anthropogenic global warming theories at all.

Re # 5 As far as I understand it (drawing on my recollections of a lecture Hansen gave here at Yale a few weeks back), the actual net forcing associated with Milankovich cycles is relatively small, but it tends to trigger massive feedbacks (e.g. polar ice expanding, lowering albedo, cooling, expanding more) that «snowball» into a glacial period.

In the past glacial cycles organisms and ecosystems responded to climate change by shifting geographical ranges and when unable to shift local populations died and at times entire species became extinct.

«The Milankovitch theory of climate change proposes that glacial - interglacial cycles are driven by changes in summer insolation at high northern latitudes [i.e., solar irradiance received].

First let's look at how ice ages — the cold phases of glacial cycles — work on Earth.

Such as another fascinating paper by Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus in the Deptment of Geology at Western Washington University: «Solar Influence on Recurring Global, Decadal, Climate Cycles Recorded by Glacial Fluctuations, Ice Cores, Sea Surface Temperatures, and Historic Measurements Over the Past Millennium» — Hat tip to Anthony Watt's Watts Up with That.

At their most basic level, glacial cycles are caused by gravity: the gravity of other planets in the solar system, which influence Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Anthropogenic warming has interrupted the Glacial - Interglacial cycle of the Quaternary (Ganopolski et al., 2016; Haqq - Misra, 2014) and there will be no coming Ice - Age n - 1000 years from now to reseal all of this volatile Carbon, as happened at the end of each previous interglacial.