Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years

Carolyn W. Snyder ()
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Carolyn W. Snyder: Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University

Nature, 2016, vol. 538, issue 7624, 226-228

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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