paleoclimatology, Tag

Sources and sinks From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SANTA BARBARA For the entire history of our species, humans have lived on a planet capped by a chunk of ice at each pole...

Major tectonic collisions near the equator have caused three ice ages in the last 540 million years Over the last 540 million years, the Earth has weathered three major ice ages — periods during which global temperatures...

Researchers at the University of Bonn used drill cores to trace back the fires of the past 600,000 years – favorable climate induced growth promoting larger fuel loads was the biggest factor...

From The BBC At his laboratory in a wooded grove in northern Kyoto, Takeshi Nakatsuka holds up a vacuum sealed bag. Inside, bobbing in a bath of brown water, is a glistening disk the size of a dinner plate and the color of...

Curtin researchers believe that ancient supercontinents formed and then fell apart through alternating cycles spanning hundreds of millions of years that involved superoceans being swallowed and the restructuring of the Earth’s...

O……K….. Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 Here’s a link to the full paper. Highlights Combines multiple methods estimating pre-Columbian population numbers. Estimates...

PETM = Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Guest Aeuhhh???? by David Middleton “Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years”… Climate change caused climate change??? Ancient climate...

Just a single study.  Just a single location.  Just a single technique.  Importance TBD~ctm From EurekAlert!    Link to study and excerpts below press release. Geoscientists at UMass Amherst have reconstructed the longest...

Guest AEUHHH???? by David Middleton A Terrifying Sea-Level Prediction Now Looks Far Less Likely But experts warn that our overall picture of sea-level rise looks far scarier today than it did even five years ago...

Public Release: 19-Dec-2018 The quest to discover what drove the last, long-term global climate shift on Earth, which took place around a million years ago, has taken a new, revealing twist...

From Science Direct Scott St. George Jan Esper Department of Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany Received 3...

From Eurekalert Public Release: 18-Dec-2018 Even forest trees growing in average conditions may decline in productivity as much as 75 percent University of Arizona A treasure trove of data about tree growth in the US West...

From Eurekalert Public Release: 14-Dec-2018 The history of our climate is written in ice. Reading it is a matter of deciphering the complex signals pulled from tens of thousands of years of accumulated isotopes frozen miles...

Guest eye roll by David Middleton From Real Clear Science… The Two Great Killers of ‘The Great Dying’ By Ross Pomeroy – RCP Staff The Siberian Traps in northern Russia are picturesque...

Guest post by David Middleton From the American Association for the Advancement of Science! in America: Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ By Ann Gibbons Nov...