Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

A Dutton, AE Carlson, AJ Long, GA Milne, PU Clark… - science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Although thermal expansion of seawater and melting of mountain glaciers
have dominated global mean sea level (GMSL) rise over the last century, mass loss from the …

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 C anthropogenic warming and beyond

H Fischer, KJ Meissner, AC Mix, NJ Abram… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past 3.5 million years, there have been several intervals when climate conditions
were warmer than during the pre-industrial Holocene. Although past intervals of warming …

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

EA Pearce, F Mazier, S Normand, R Fyfe, V Andrieu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

TF Rangel, NR Edwards, PB Holden, JAF Diniz-Filho… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Individual processes that shape geographical patterns of biodiversity are
increasingly understood, but their complex interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales …

[HTML][HTML] 末次间冰期以来古火对千年及轨道尺度气候和植被变化的响应

崔巧玉 - 第四纪研究, 2020 - dsjyj.com.cn
崔巧玉. 末次间冰期以来古火对千年及轨道尺度气候和植被变化的响应[J]. 第四纪研究, 2020, 40
(6): 1513-1521. doi: 10.11928/j. issn. 1001-7410.2020. 06.12引用本文: 崔巧玉 …

Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change

J Bergman, RØ Pedersen, EJ Lundgren… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The worldwide extinction of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene is
evident from the fossil record, with dominant theories suggesting a climate, human or …

Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years

CW Snyder - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Reconstructions of Earth's past climate strongly influence our understanding of the dynamics
and sensitivity of the climate system. Yet global temperature has been reconstructed for only …

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss

MV Guarino, LC Sime, D Schröeder… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Last Interglacial (LIG), a warmer period 130,000–116,000 years before present,
is a potential analogue for future climate change. Stronger LIG summertime insolation at …

Climate models, scenarios, and projections

K Hayhoe, J Edmonds, R Kopp, A LeGrande… - 2017 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
If greenhouse gas concentrations were stabilized at their current level, existing
concentrations would commit the world to at least an additional 1.1 F (0.6 C) of warming over …