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The Challenge of Climate Change by Sir David King
Earth’s “hot periods”, such as around 60 million years ago when all ice on the planet melted and when ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 2: The Causes of Climatic Change
Maunder Minimum, has been associated with the height of the Little Ice Age. It has also been claimed that the warming of the ... this mechanism has played a part in inducing the shift from ice age to interglacial conditions on time scales of 10,000 to ... . Science 254, 698-700. Imbrie, J. and Imbrie, K.P. (1979) Ice Ages, Solving the Mystery. Macmillan Press, London. Kelly, P. M. and Wigley, T. ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 6: The Holocene
It began at the time of the retreat of the ice sheets at the end of the last glaciation. Various dates are given for this retreat ... in Information Sheet 2. The Holocene is a relatively warm period, probably an interglacial between ice ages. The large-scale fluctuations in climate during the Holocene are most likely related to Milankovitch ...
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Papers - CO2 February 2003
Dutch glasshouse industry Bell Long-term climate change, carbon dioxide and Ice Ages Bertschi et al. Carbon dioxide emissions and residual biomass burning Hély et al. Carbon dioxide ...
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Papers - Climate change February 2003
Estimating future climate change in western France Bell Long-term climate change, carbon dioxide and Ice Ages Bopp et al. Climate change and oceanic dimethyl sulphide emissions Chen et al. Climate change ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
... years the mean surface temperature was perhaps five degrees lower--in the course of recurring ice ages--but there is little evidence for global temperatures more than one degree higher than the ...
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Planetary Ejections and Cratering
Falls of ice have also taken place. ... ice, and is the mechanism behind the formation of glacial cover and ice ages (see discussion in sections 5.3n and 5.3o). Consider this ice fall. On 13 December 1973 ice fell on Fort Pierce, Florida, a very unlikely place for ice ...
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Natureandco.com - National Parks of New Zealand - Mt Cook National Park
Forty percent of the total area is still covered in glacial ice. Mt Cook National Park has been the centre for mountaineering ... carved by the glaciers of the quaternary ice ages. At the height of the latest ice age, 18,000 years ago, the length ... area is glaciated. Numerous ascents of all grades are possible, including ice faces, snow aretes, rock buttresses, and more. While altitudes are not ...
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Natureandco.com - National Parks of New Zealand - Fiordland National Park
Thus they have retained almost unchanged the very sharp imprint of the latest ice ages, when an ice cap was covering the central mountain area. The glacier tongues that were flowing from ...
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Appalachian Mountains chapter for Conservation International book on Wilderness
On a different scale, the elevational gradients of gorges and summits allow short-range migrations ... tropical species that have not evolved under continental-scale disturbance regimes, such as caused by ice-age glaciation, may be more susceptible to extinction from human activity than their hardy ...
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