Paleoclimatology
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Paleoclimatology or more generally paleo-science is the study of weather and its environmental change before records of such took place. The intrumental records as they are called consist of percipitation or temperature and have been available for the past 100 years. Climate throughout Earth's history has left and continuous to leave chemical and physical structural imprints of its effect on the oceans, life, and land. Proxy data such as tree-ring dating, skeletons of tropical coral reefs, ice cores from glaciers as well as ice caps, and buried sediments from lakes and oceans are taken by evolutionists in some cases to represent millions of years past time. These sets of data reveal general climate patterns which can be put into computer models to aid in the prediction of future climate changes. The word, "paleo" means involvement or dealings with ancient forms or conditions [1]. It is used to gain a paleo-understanding of weather data from as far back as possible. [2]
It is clear that the instrumental data already known cannot allow for such long-term understanding, thus other tools are needed. Through paleoclimatic, paleoceanographic, and paleoecologic records understanding is acheived to determine variations of weather over not merely decades but millenia if needed.
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Global Warming
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Global warming is an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. Anthropogenic climate change refers to human induced climate change.
References
- ↑ Paleo Merriam-Webster
- ↑ Paleoclimatology and climate system U.S. National Report to IUGG, 1991-1994. Rev. Geophys. Vol. 33 Suppl., © 1995 American Geophysical Union.
External Links
- Paleoclimatology Earth Observatory
- Paleoclimatology and climate system dynamics by Jonathan T. Overpeck. NOAA Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder, Colorado.
- Climatology and Paleoclimatology Resources S. Baum. Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University.
