We’re collecting a few basic links to the climate record.
Contributions of superior data and interpretations would be much
appreciated. The Lisiecki and Raymo graphic above has a complex
derivation, summarized briefly here — don’t mistake it for
anything analogous to familiar contemporary temperature records.
The sudden onset of glaciation can be appreciated from the
recent 450kyear reconstructions of Antarctic temperature Moving
from the recent climate history shown in the two graphics above,
here is a 65 million year reconstruction: Continuing our
interest in sudden climate shifts, here are a couple of short
papers that look interesting. First is Sudden climate
transitions during the Quaternary, which is in preparation by
Jonathan Adams (1), Mark Maslin (2) and Ellen Thomas (3). The
authors caution: Article in press in Progress in Physical
Geography This represents an earlier version of our text. Some
changes have been made since we stopped modifying this web
version: e.g. we have added a discussion of the