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- noun geology The
climate of theEarth at a specified point ingeologic time
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Examples
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The IPCC has an extensive discussion [pdf] about so-called paleoclimate and in fact uses the climate record to test current climate models.
Bill Chameides: Non-Climate Scientist 'Climate Scientist' Sets the Record Straight 2009
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Hence paleoclimate says more extreme claims about sensitivity must be wrong.
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Hence paleoclimate says that the more extreme claims about sensitivity (especially those claiming very low levels) must be wrong.
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Hansen lists climate models third in his sources of understanding of climate change, after (1) paleoclimate and (2) observations of changes in the present and recent past.
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Hansen lists climate models third in his sources of understanding of climate change, after (1) paleoclimate and (2) observations of changes in the present and recent past.
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Hence paleoclimate says more extreme claims about sensitivity must be wrong.
AGU Day 2: The role of CO2 in the earth’s history | Serendipity 2009
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Even if we are going to have global warming, the paleoclimate record shows that with higher temperatures the growing season is longer, the north African Sahara desert turns into a well watered place of several million square km.
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Hence paleoclimate says that the more extreme claims about sensitivity (especially those claiming very low levels) must be wrong.
AGU Day 2: The role of CO2 in the earth’s history | Serendipity 2009
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Last week the industrious Steve McIntyre got hold of some paleoclimate data that has been used when trying to reconstruct the earth's temperature history.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Hence paleoclimate says that the more extreme claims about sensitivity (especially those claiming very low levels) must be wrong.
qms commented on the word paleoclimate
I’m all for the paleoclimate
And ingenious ways that they time it,
But I’ve an objection
To this shrewd projection:
It’s a damnable challenge to rhyme it.
April 28, 2019