Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of climatic conditions, and their causes and effects, in the geologic past, using evidence found in glacial deposits, fossils, and sediments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The study of climatic conditions of the past periods of geologic time.
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- noun Alternative form of
palaeoclimatology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the study of the climate of past ages
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Examples
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One fact about which general public is not aware: there are two climate sciences, the one called paleoclimatology, and the one more known due media hype - computer modelling of the present climate system.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Fritts 2003, it has not been addressed in long-term paleoclimatology reconstructions.
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People make extravagant claims -- "As certain as gravity," says Al Gore -- about a branch of science, paleoclimatology, that is only 25 years old (the first textbook on paleoclimate came out in 1980).
I Trust My Statistical Intuition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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First is paleoclimatology, that is reconstruction of climate of the past.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The main impact of Climategate is casting doubt on paleoclimatology, that is trying to reconstruct the past few millennia of climate to assess how anomalous the current warming is.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Climategate” and the Social Validation of Knowledge 2009
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I wikipediaed not a real word the word paleoclimatology it tell what it is but not when the science started, who coined the term the first degrees who got first degrees, is there a degree in it?
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The main impact of Climategate is casting doubt on paleoclimatology, that is trying to reconstruct the past few millennia of climate to assess how anomalous the current warming is.
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Other fields, such as paleoclimatology or paleo-anything are exercises in historical interpretation, and involve trying to match a theory to an inferred proxy data set that implies a variable of interest.
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Climate change crops up a lot, most notably in the sessions on atmospheric sciences and global environmental change, but also in sessions on the cryosphere, ocean sciences, biogeosciences, paleoclimatology, and hydrology.
AGU Day 0: Restarting the Climate Conversation | Serendipity 2009
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Climate change crops up a lot, most notably in the sessions on atmospheric sciences and global environmental change, but also in sessions on the cryosphere, ocean sciences, biogeosciences, paleoclimatology, and hydrology.
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