A. Rates of temperature rise from the mid-19th century are higher than
those of the glacial termination (17 — 10 kyr) by more than a factor of 10, increasing to a factor of 20 and higher from the mid-1970s.
Not exact matches
Martinson and Pitman III discuss
of the «abrupt
terminations»
of glacial period.
Amplitude and Duration: The most significant events are
terminations of the
glacial period and rapid onset
of global warming
of the interglacial period.
Terminations I through V are significant paleoclimate events where the
termination of the
glacial state occurs, and Earth begins to change into a warm interglacial state.
8), these stratigraphic features substantiate the use
of the TP age to date
glacial termination VI at.
Does this process run freely, or is it synchronized to some other forcing — like Huybers & Wunsch propose for ice ages in «Obliquity pacing
of the late Pleistocene
glacial terminations»?
For one, the relative roles
of eccentricity, obliquity, and precession in controlling
glacial onsets /
terminations are still debated.
I have also seen your comments on WUWT where I read about your ideas on the
termination of the
glacial periods from a low vegetation / high dust environment as a result
of low CO2 levels at the
glacial peaks, which seems very plausible to me.
Few people have read paleo - climatology text books, are aware
of the
glacial / interglacial cycle, are aware that the paleoclimatic record has unequivocal evidence
of cyclic gradual changes and cyclic abrupt climate events, are aware that the abrupt climate change events such as the abrupt
termination of the last 22 interglacial periods lacks an explanation, are aware that all
of the past interglacial periods are short (roughly 12,000 years) and that they have ended abruptly, and so on.
After the
termination of the
glacial period, temperatures increased steadily to a maximum
of 2.5 °C warmer than at present during the Climatic Optimum (4,000 to 7,000 years ago).
The interglacial and the
glacial planetary temperature data shows cycles
of warming and cooling interrupted by very strong «RCEs» (Rickies) Rapid Climatic Change Events (For example the Younger Dryas abrupt cooling event and the
termination of the last interglacial).
«The lags
of CO2 with respect to the Antarctic temperature over
glacial terminations V to VII are 800, 1600, and 2800 years, respectively, which are consistent with earlier observations during the last four
glacial cycles.»
[13] Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen, Jesse Smith, Derek Mastroianni, Bruce Deck, «Ice Core Records
of Atmospheric CO2 around the Last Three
Glacial Terminations,» Science, vol.
As there is a lot
of talk
of the see - saw mechanism (in decadal - centurial scale) during the
glacial terminations, might this effect be noticeable also in shorter periods
of time?
It's attractive in that it explains several lines
of otherwise problematic evidence (near - ubiquitous
glacial sediments, including many in paleo - low latitudes as indicated by paleomagnetic studies, overlain by equally ubiquitous «cap carbonates» (resulting from a CO2 insolubility spike at Snowball Earth
termination).
According to Petit et al. [2] the same sequence
of events in each
glacial termination involved «orbital forcing (with a possible contribution
of local insolation changes) followed by two strong amplifiers, greenhouse gases acting first, then deglaciation and ice - albedo feedback».
Temperature rise rates during 1970 - 2003 have exceeded those
of the last
glacial termination by an order
of magnitude.
During the last
glacial termination (~ 19 — 10 kyr) sharp increase in solar insolation forcing, amplified by feeback by GHG (17 — 11.5)(Table 1), resulted in mean temperature increase
of about 90 C [2].
Rates
of CO2 rise during 1970 - 2003 exceeded those
of the last
glacial termination by two orders
of magnitude.
C. Rates
of CO2 increase from the late 19th century (~ 0.6 — 0.7 ppm / yr) are almost a factor
of 50 the
glacial termination rates (~ 0.014 ppm / yr), accelerating during 2000 — 2005 from 1.8 to 2.1 ppm / year.
[DOI: 10.1126 / science.1177840]-RRB- correlated speleotherm, ice core, and marine records to show a sequence
of events that led to
termination of glacials in the past: 1.
Concurrent with mwp - 1A was the onset
of the Bølling - Allerød interstadial event (14,600 years before the present), which marked the
termination of the last
glacial period.
Martinson and Pitman III discuss
of the «abrupt
terminations»
of glacial period.
------- * Not to mention that there is an event similar to the Younger Dryas at the end
of at least one other
glacial period, «
termination III» (see e.g. Carlson et al., 2008).