The climate of the future: clues from three million years ago

Haywood, Alan; Williams, Mark

Haywood, Alan; Williams, Mark. 2005 The climate of the future: clues from three million years ago. Geology Today, 21 (4). 138-143. 10.1111/j.1365-2451.2005.00509.x

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Abstract

In the eighteenth century, James Hutton came up with a theory that revolutionized the science of geology, ‘The present is a key to the past’. But could the past also be a guide to our future? The world three million years ago was warmer than present. What might it tell us about global climate change in the near future?

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2451.2005.00509.x

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1111/j.1365-2451.2005.00509.x

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BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > Greenhouse to Icehouse. Evolution of the Antarctic Cryosphere and Palaeoenvironment

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0266-6979

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Earth Sciences

Additional Keywords:

Palaeoclimate, Pliocene

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