Sentences with phrase «years during the interglacial»

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Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have analysed the natural climate variations over the last 12,000 years, during which we have had a warm interglacial period and they have looked back 5 million years to see the major features of the Earth's climate.

Instead, the fossil record indicates they vanished during the Earth's glacial - interglacial transition, which occurred about 12,000 years ago and led to much warmer conditions and the start of the current Holocene period.

For example, the polar bear specimen from roughly 120,000 years ago survived in Svalbard during a warm interglacial period because that Arctic archipelago remained more frozen than other areas.

Previous estimates suggested that peak temperatures during the warmest interglacial periods — which occurred at around 125,000, 240,000 and 340,000 years ago — were about three degrees higher than they are today.

«Thanks to the sediment core data, we have clear evidence that, during the last interglacial roughly 125,000 years ago, the central Arctic Ocean was still covered with sea ice during the summer.

The results of this 20 - year study show that animal and plant communities were much more changeable during the ice age than they have been during the last 12,000 years of interglacial climate in which we live today.

During the last 800,000 years, CO2 fluctuated between about 180 ppm during ice ages and 280 ppm during interglacial warm peDuring the last 800,000 years, CO2 fluctuated between about 180 ppm during ice ages and 280 ppm during interglacial warm peduring ice ages and 280 ppm during interglacial warm peduring interglacial warm periods.

The researchers found that climate during the last 70 to 130 thousand years, including during the last interglacial as recorded in the interior of the Middle East, is closely linked to the climate of the North Atlantic region.

The results, which include information during the last glacial and interglacial periods, showed that relief from the current dry spell across the interior of the Middle East is unlikely within the next 10,000 years.

Our current interglacial had already extended beyond the length of most others during the past 400,000 years.

In a study out of the University of Arizona, researchers found that melting ice sheets had a greater impact on sea level rise than the thermal expansion of the oceans during the previous interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

In particular, during the last 800,000 years, the dominant period of glacial — interglacial oscillation has been 100,000 years, which corresponds to changes in Earth's eccentricity and orbital inclination.

Recent instrumental data spans 165 + years during the past 11,000 + years of the Holocene interglacial warm period as shown on figure 2.

There are approximately five interglacial periods ranging in duration from ten to thirty thousand years during the past 500,000 years.

Kopp et al. (2009) took a first step down this road, applying a Bayesian framework to reduce bias in estimates of GSL during the Last Interglacial stage (LIG; ~ 130 - 115 thousand years ago).

Greenland has probably had large amounts of ice for the last 3 million years, although some significant portion may have melted during the last interglacial.

Our current interglacial had already extended beyond the length of most others during the past 400,000 years.

If fossils of anatomically modern humans can be found from 200 - 300 thousand years ago, why didn't a technological civilization develop during the Eemian interglacial?

However, although the Arctic is still not as warm as it was during the Eemian interglacial 125,000 years ago [e.g., Andersen et al., 2004], the present rate of sea ice loss will likely push the system out of this natural envelope within a century.

The new results... show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C. [14.4 degrees F.] warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.

The highest values are encountered during several past interglacial periods (stage 19, about 800,000 years ago; stage 9.3, about 300,000 years ago).

A new research paper by Friedrich et al. looks at glacial - interglacial climate variability during the last 784,000 years to estimate Earth's climate variability.

Imagine there was a human civilisation ~ 120.000 years ago (during the last interglacial).

The 12 — 21 cm higher sea level stand during the MWP is likely the highest sea level since the previous interglacial period 110,000 years ago, and was produced by an extended period of warming, allowing time for glaciers and thermal expansion to reach a climatic balance.

Global average sea level was likely between 4 and 6 m higher during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice -LRB-

However, a major sudden cold event did probably occur under global climate conditions similar to those of the present, during the Eemian interglacial, around 122,000 years ago.

The planet went from interglacial warm to glacial cold during the Younger Dryas period with cooling for around 1000 years.

«Between 5,000 and 8,000 years ago, both methane and carbon dioxide started an upward trend, unlike during previous interglacial periods,» explains Kutzbach.

Global average sea level was likely between 4 and 6 m higher during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice (Figure TS.21).

For example, atmospheric carbon dioxide grew by approximately 30 % during the transition from the most recent cold glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, to the current warm interglacial period; the corresponding rate of decrease in surface ocean pH, driven by geological processes, was approximately 50 times slower than the current rate driven largely by fossil fuel burning.

And during the Eemian, the previous interglacial, temperatures were 1 - 2 degr.C higher than today, thus a constant increase of 5 ppmv / yr during about 15,000 years would give an increase of 75,000 ppmv CO2... That is physically impossible.

It would require a much stronger relationship of temperature driving CO2 than occurred during the ice age — interglacial oscillations (and it is also important to remember that those changes occurred over much longer timescales too... which is the presumed reason why there is a several hundred year lag time between temperatures starting to rise or fall and CO2 starting to rise or fall).

Civilization developed during the Holocene, the interglacial period of the past 10,000 years during which global temperature and sea level have been unusually stable.

He thinks that a record in a 150 year time series is important during a 20,000 interglacial.

During the Eemian (the interglacial before this one about 100,000 or so years ago) sea level was about 9 meters higher than now, presumably because the Earth was warmer than now and there was then enough water.

Arctic climatic extremes include 25 °C hyperthermal periods during the Paleocene - Eocene (56 — 46 million years ago, Ma), Quaternary glacial periods when thick ice shelves and sea ice cover rendered the Arctic Ocean nearly uninhabitable, seasonally sea - ice - free interglacials and abrupt climate reversals.

On the global mean sea level rise during the last interglacial period (129,000 to 116,000 years ago), the UK, Austria, US, Germany and others supported providing a policy relevant context and linking paleoclimatic observations on sea level rise to temperature.

And in terms of our current interglacial period, there has much warmer periods during this time, and that the long trend over 8000 year period has been a slight cooling.

In addition to the increasing trend of recent CO2 content in atmosphere, according to my interpretations, empiric observations prove that the trends of CO2 content in atmosphere have followed temperature during the last century, during the glacial and interglacial eras, and during the last 100 million years.

Both panels are reconstructions of oxygen concentrations in the California Margin during a cold, glacial climate (left, 18,000 years ago) and a warm, interglacial climate (right, 14,000 years ago; Moffitt et al. 2015a).

Fossil corals provide snapshots of past seasonality and year - to - year change during glacial - interglacial cycles and across millions of years stretching from the Holocene, through the Pliocene, and into the Miocene (Figure 3).

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

In sum, the conclusion of the Kopp study that 20th century sea level rise was extremely likely faster than during any of the 27 previous centuries is not substantiated, although there is little doubt that sea levels are higher than they have been since the last interglacial period, the Eemian, about 115,000 to 130,000 years ago.

I am sure that all on this list know that the temperature maximum for this interglacial period occurred during the Holocene Optimum some 2,500 to 5,000 years ago and that we have been cooling ever since.

There is very high confidence that maximum global mean sea level during the last interglacial period (~ 129 to 116 ka) was, for several thousand years, at least 5 m higher than present and high confidence that it did not exceed 10 m above present, implying substantial contributions from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

What you see in the geological record is our planet has a constantly varying climate — in recent times during the Pleistocene Era (the last 2.65 million years), we have long ice ages interspersed with relatively short (10 - 20,000 years) interglacial periods.

For roughly the past 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age, human beings have enjoyed a relatively stable, comfortable «interglacial» period, during which they've invented everything from agriculture to moon rockets.

http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/greenland-ice-cores-reveal-warm-climate-of-the-past/ «The new results from the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.»

Okay, so now you suddenly agree that total energy received from the sun during the year does not change with the Milankovitch cycle and hence is not a factor in the glacial / interglacial transitions.

We are fortunate that our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly warm, interglacial climate.