Those questioning the vulnerability of this species to warming will point to its successful survival through two
previous warm intervals between ice ages as evidence the bear can deal with reduced ice and other big environmental shifts.
Not exact matches
DeConto and Pollard's study was motivated by reconstructions of sea level rise during past
warm periods including the
previous inter-glacial (around 125,000 years ago) and earlier
warm intervals like the Pliocene (around 3 million years ago).
The new results, published in Nature Geoscience, contradict those
previous studies and indicate that tropical sea surface temperatures were
warmer during the early - to - mid Pliocene, an
interval spanning about 5 to 3 million years ago.
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In essence, the authors have revisited a question posed earlier in a paper by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas (2003: see our
previous discussion here), investigating whether or not evidence from past proxy records of temperature support the existence of past
intervals of warmth with the widespread global scale of 20th century
warming.
«annual temperatures up to AD 2000 over extra-tropical NH land areas have probably exceeded by about 0.3 °C the
warmest previous interval over the past 1162 years»
The periods of intense hurricanes uncovered by the new research were driven in part by
intervals of
warm sea surface temperatures that
previous research has shown occurred during these time periods, according to the new study.
As indicated by the red line, the
warmest interval of the 20th century is not unique, having been eclipsed four times
previous (see the shaded red circles) in the 373 - year record — once in the 17th century, twice in the 18th century and once in the nineteenth century.
For example, the rate of
warming of surface air temperature observed during the past 20 years is much greater than that observed during the
previous 20 - year
interval, 1960 — 79, and is not necessarily indicative of the rate of temperature change that will be observed during the future
interval 2000 — 2019.
On the other hand, the trend of the 21st century is 0, which is twice the rate of certain selected
previous intervals that had a
warming rate of 0.