1. Global Cooling
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2. Paleoclimatology Redistribution of oxygen isotopes: Interglacial
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Vostok
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5. Natural Causes for Climate Change
Solar Fluctuations
Orbital Fluctuations
Volcanic Emissions
Plate Tectonics
Changing Ocean Circulation
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6. Solar Fluctuations Solar Fluctuation
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7. Milankovitch theory of climate change:
Eccentricity: 400 ka and 100 ka
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8. Shortwave energy per square meter will decrease at lower sun angles and shorter daylight periods.
Energy Budget
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9. Milankovitch theory of climate change:
Obliquity: 41 ka
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10. Milankovitch theory of climate change:
Axial Precession: 23 ka
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11. Milankovitch theory of climate change:
Glacial
Ice Growth Configuration: High eccentricity High Tilt Small Earth-Sun Distance in Summer
Net Effect: More seasonal contrast
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12. Milankovitch theory of climate change:
Inter- Glacial
Ice Growth Configuration: Low eccentricity Low Tilt Large Earth-Sun Distance in Summer
Net Effect: Less seasonal contrast
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13. GOOD NEWS: It has been possible to reproduce past climates using Milankovitch theory plus changes observed in greenhouse gas concentrations.
BAD NEWS: Changes were slow and we have little experience modeling rapid change.
Climate Models
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14. Climate Models
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15. Paleoclimatology Changes in CO2 (0 - 12,500 YBP) NOW
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16. Energy Budget
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17. Climate
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18. Climate Glacial retreat of North American ice sheets (1000s of years)
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19. 1-meter rise of sea level equivalent to 0
1-meter rise of sea level equivalent to 0.4 million cubic kilometers of ice
Sea Level Change
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20. Sea Level Change
1-meter rise of sea level equivalent to 0.4 million cubic kilometers of ice
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21. Climate RAPID Changes in Climate Happen Warmer Cooler
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22. Climate
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23. CaCO3shells of ocean plankton from the Norwegian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico record pulses of low d18O meltwater delivery from nearby ice sheets.
[from Ruddiman, 2001]
Climate
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24. CaCO3shells of ocean plankton from the Norwegian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico record pulses of low d18O meltwater delivery from nearby ice sheets.
[from Ruddiman, 2001]
Climate
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25. Climate During deglaciation the direction of drainage changed.
[from Ruddiman, 2001]
Climate
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26. CaCO3shells of ocean plankton from the Norwegian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico record pulses of low d18O meltwater delivery from nearby ice sheets.
[from Ruddiman, 2001]
Climate
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