Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Rates of ancient climate change may be underestimated Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:24:45 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="24343"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18FQ2gZw5G1nonJ7xxB2UNm" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3/yFW0PhS6UqwT6IGzCkuNp/NNI= Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:531827 Sam Wormley wrote: > Rates of ancient climate change may be underestimated >> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ancient-climate-underestimated.html > >> The pace of past episodes of climate change is likely to have been >> underestimated, according to research carried out by scientists at >> the University of Aberdeen and Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) >> in Germany. >> >> In a paper published in Nature Communications, the research team >> demonstrate how geological archives do not capture the full >> variability of climate change likely to have occurred in ancient >> times. The result, they argue, is that maximum rates of climate >> change in Earth's history are systematically underestimated. Or overestimated, or spot on, or irrelevant to anything in the last million years. -- Jim Pennino