1 | | Climate Change in Earth History - a perspective on the future | 2 | | 137 years of data |
3 | | The other CO2 problem - Ocean Acidification | 4 | | Earth History |
5 | | Climate has changed over the Earth's history | 6 | | Climate in Earth History - Key Points |
7 | | The Eartth's history “book” | 8 | | Ocean and lake sediment information |
9 | | Climate Proxies - Rock Types | 10 | | Glaciers and glacial deposits |
11 | | Formation of Glaciers | 12 | | How do we know about past glaciers? |
13 | | Glacial tills and tillites | 14 | | Glacial till in Minnesota, about 18,000 years old |
15 | | Tillite = Till that has been “lithified”, turned to rock | 16 | | More clues left behind by glaciers: Ice rafted debris - Dropstones |
17 | | Ice-rafted debris -- dropstones | 18 | | Climate Proxies -- Fossils |
19 | | Evidence from fossil leaf “shape” | 20 | | Evidence from fossil leaf “shape” |
21 | | Evidence from fossil leaves and pollen | 22 | | Climate Proxies - Chemical Clues |
23 | | Climate Proxies - Chemical Clues | 24 | | Isotope “Behavior” |
25 | | Foraminifera (“forams”) | 26 | | Climate signals from foraminifera shells in deep seq deposits - 18O/16O |
27 | | Evidence from the chemistry of foraminifera shells | 28 | | 18O/16O in forams from Cenozoic sediments (past 65.5 million years) |
29 | | Data from three different time scales | 30 | | Green House vs Ice House Climates - 100 million year cycles |
31 | | Greenhouse Earth | 32 | | Icehouse Earth |
33 | | Cenozoic Climate - The past 65.5 million years | 34 | | Glacial-Interglacial Cycles of the past 1.8 million years |
35 | | Glacial-Interglacial Cycles of the past 1.8 million years | 36 | | Last Glacial Maximum |
37 | | The current interglacial | 38 | | The man-made super-interglacial |
39 | | How does this compare to climate changes of the past? | 40 | | How does this compare to climate changes of the past? |
41 | | How does this compare to climate changes of the past? | 42 | | How does this compare to climate changes of the past? |
43 | | Do we have any analogues from Earth History? | 44 | | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) |
45 | | Volcanic Eruptions | 46 | | Layered volcanic rocks in Eastern Greenland are up to 4000 meters thick |
47 | | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) | 48 | | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) |
49 | | Comparison of the PETM to the Anthropocene | 50 | | Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past 66 million years |
51 | | Climate of Earth History - key Points | 52 | | Uncharted Territory Ahead |