Sentences with phrase «paleoclimatic evidence»
"Paleoclimatic evidence" refers to information obtained from studying the Earth's past climate. It includes clues like fossilized plants, ancient ice cores, and sediment layers that can help scientists understand how the climate has changed over long periods of time. Full definition
Paleoclimatic evidence suggests drought in the mid-12th century far exceeded the severity, duration, and extent of subsequent droughts.
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Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of the paucity of high - resolution paleoclimatic evidence.
The article compares current rates of ocean warming with long - term paleoclimatic evidence from ocean sediments.
Archaeological, historical, and paleoclimatic evidence suggests that climatic factors and population growth might also have come into play.
I don't think the last 12 years in isolation could provide much evidence to confirm or falsify models (which do produce internal variability, hence the wide spread in short term trends), but taking those 12 years in comparison to the 12 before, and the last 24 years in comparison to the 24 before that, etc, and paleoclimatic evidence, etc, and model behavior is at least generally supported.
In addition, the rate of sea - level rise has been higher over the last decade than over the last century, and paleoclimatic evidence is suggesting that the loss of about half of the Greenland Ice Sheet took place in a few centuries going into the last interglacial (the Eemian) and that sea levels were even higher than this amount of ice can account for.