Sentences with phrase «whether glacial cycles»

Finally, there has been a long, on - going discussion of whether glacial cycles are primarily deterministic or stochastic.

The analysis provides a window into how animals might react to any kind of climate change, whether glacial cycles or global warming.

Not exact matches

There's never been a study that has comprehensively analyzed whether vertebrate communities responded to the glacial cycles in a uniform way.»

The research team also assessed whether climate sensitivity was different in warmer times, like the Pliocene, than in colder times, like the glacial cycles of the last 800,000 years.

Having only a small number of glacial / inter-glacial cycles to work with makes it difficult to test whether a plausible analogy is actually predictive.

It's questionable whether we can raise it high enough to cancel the effect of the Milankovich cycle which triggers glacial periods.