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- Ice Age Temperatures and Precipitation Reconstructed from Earthworm Granules Tue, 22 Nov 22, 9:00pmNew method for determination of past climate data on land applied comparatively for the first time / Ice Age summers in Central Europe were at times warmer than previously known.
- Tiniest Ever Ancient Seawater Pockets Revealed Mon, 21 Nov 22, 1:00pmThe surprising discovery of seawater sealed in what is now North America for 390 million years opens up a new avenue for understanding how oceans change and adapt with the changing climate.
- Scientists say sea-level changes formed Australia’s K’Gari Sand Island, Great Barrier Reef Thu, 17 Nov 22, 5:00am“Our research provides evidence that the formation of K’gari and the Great Barrier Reef are linked to a change in the magnitude of sea-level rise and fall due to major climate feedback changes during the Middle Pleistocene...
- Climate Physics w/ Professor William Happer on Saifedean Ammous’s THE BITCOIN STANDARD Podcast. Mon, 31 Oct 22, 12:00pmHow does politicization affect science, and why does Professor Happer think that the more policy-driven a field is, the less trustworthy its conclusions are?
- The Last 12,000 Years Show a More Complex Climate History Than Previously Thought Wed, 5 Oct 22, 8:00pmInconsistencies between Holocene climate reconstructions and numerical model simulations question the robustness of climate models and proxy temperature records.
- Sea Level: The Geological “Control Knob” for Atmospheric CO2? Tue, 4 Oct 22, 8:00amGuest “putting 2 and 2 together” by David Middleton This post is the nucleus of a hypothesis I’ve been trying to develop. It is a “work in progress” and not…
- Key Phases of Human Evolution Coincide with Flickers in Eastern Africa’s Climate Tue, 27 Sep 22, 7:00pmThree distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal over the last 620,000 years,
- Record of Antarctic Ice Sheet Response to Climate Cycles Found in Rock Samples Mon, 19 Sep 22, 3:00pm“Antarctica has these interesting brines with no carbon in them, because it all precipitated out earlier, so when those brines are isolated from other sources of water they form opal,” Piccione explained.
- Steven McIntyre vs. the Spawn of Yamal Fri, 2 Sep 22, 3:00amStephen McIntyre’s tweet thread is a delight for old timers of the Climate Wars and has resurrected the issue, or at least the region, of the Enchanted Larch of Yamal.…
- Are fossil-fuel CO2 emissions good or bad? Wed, 31 Aug 22, 11:00amBy Andy May This is the transcript, with minor edits to get it into blog post format, of my keynote speech to the Division of Professional Affairs, at the second…
- Global Warming Spawned the Age of Reptiles Sat, 20 Aug 22, 11:00amHarvard researchers find rapid evolution of reptiles was triggered by nearly 60 million years of global warming and climate change
- The Two Degree Limit Wed, 20 Jul 22, 3:00amBy Andy May For decades We have been told that we must not let global warming exceed two degrees Celsius above the “pre-industrial” global average temperature...
- Stronger Overturning Circulation in the Pacific During the Last Glacial Period Tue, 12 Jul 22, 7:00pmData from fossil corals points to changed circulation of ocean currents – an important finding for climate models
- Claim: Hidden in Caves: Mineral Overgrowths Reveal Unprecedented Modern Sea-Level Rise Tue, 5 Jul 22, 7:00pmThe team found evidence of a previously unknown 20 centimeter sea-level rise that occurred nearly 3,200 years ago when ice caps melted naturally over the course of 400 years at a rate of 0.5 millimeters per year.
- Droughts in the sixth century paved the way for Islam Sat, 18 Jun 22, 7:00amExtreme dry conditions contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar.