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Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years

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  • Carolyn W. Snyder

    (Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University)

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Reconstruction of global average surface temperature for the past two million years shows continuous cooling until about 1.2 million years ago, followed by a general flattening, with close coupling of global temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations over the past 800,000 years.

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  • Carolyn W. Snyder, 2016. "Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years," Nature, Nature, vol. 538(7624), pages 226-228, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:538:y:2016:i:7624:d:10.1038_nature19798
    DOI: 10.1038/nature19798
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    1. Bovari, Emmanuel & Giraud, Gaël & Mc Isaac, Florent, 2018. "Coping With Collapse: A Stock-Flow Consistent Monetary Macrodynamics of Global Warming," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 383-398.
    2. Zhenyu Qin & Xuefeng Sun, 2023. "Glacial–Interglacial Cycles and Early Human Evolution in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(9), pages 1-26, August.
    3. Keke Yu & Le Wang & Lipeng Liu & Enguo Sheng & Xingxing Liu & Jianghu Lan, 2021. "Temperature Variations and Possible Forcing Mechanisms over the Past 300 Years Recorded at Lake Chaonaqiu in the Western Loess Plateau," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-15, October.
    4. Subhash Janardhan Bhore, 2016. "Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Booster to Enable Sustainable Global Development and Beyond," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-4, November.
    5. Tobias Adrian & Nina Boyarchenko & Domenico Giannone & Ananthakrishnan Prasad & Dulani Seneviratne & Yanzhe Xiao, 2022. "800,000 Years of Climate Risk," Staff Reports 1031, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    6. Hsun-Ming Hu & Gianluca Marino & Carlos Pérez-Mejías & Christoph Spötl & Yusuke Yokoyama & Jimin Yu & Eelco Rohling & Akihiro Kano & Patrick Ludwig & Joaquim G. Pinto & Véronique Michel & Patricia Val, 2024. "Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.

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