Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective

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Based on the analysis of entrapped air from ice cores extracted from permanent glaciers from various regions around the globe, it has been demonstrated that global warming began 18,000 years ago, accompanied by a steady rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. What caused this phenomenon is a matter of ongoing debate. Clearly, though, global warming and rising CO2 levels in Earth's atmosphere started long before the industrial revolution.

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Carbon Dioxide Graphs:

Soviet Station Vostok, Antarctic

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1) Ice Core Records of Atmospheric CO2 Around the Last Three Glacial Terminations
Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen, Jesse Smith, Derek Mastroianni, and Bruce Deck
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science, 283, 1712-1714

Get the data at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/vostokco2.html

2) Barnola, et. al.
Nature, 329, 408-414 (1987)

Get the data at: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/co2.txt

 

Taylor Dome, Antarctica

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3) Holocene Carbon-cycle Dynamics
Based on CO2 Trapped in Ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica
A. Indermühle*, T. F. Stocker*, F. Joos*, H. Fischer², H. J. Smith², M. Wahlen², B. Deck², D. Mastroianni², J. Tschumi*, T. Blunier*, R. Meyer* & B. Stauffer
Published: 1999, Macmillan Magazines Ltd
Nature, Vol. 398, 11 March 1999

Get the data at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/taylor/taylor_data.html

 

 

Temperature Graphs:

C. Lorius, J. Jouzel, C. Ritz, L. Merlivat, N. I. Barkov, Y. S. Korotkevitch
and V. M. Kotlyakov, A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice, Nature,
316, 1985, 591-596.

J. Jouzel, C. Lorius, J. R. Petit, C. Genthon, N. I. Barkov, V. M. Kotlyakov
and V. M. Petrov, Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature record over
the last climatic cycle (160,000 years), Nature, 329, 1987, 402-408.

J. R. Petit, L. Mounier, J. Jouzel, Y. Korotkevitch, V. Kotlyakov and C.
Lorius, Paleoclimatological implications of the Vostok core dust record,
Nature, 343, 1990, 56-58.

C. Ritz. Un modele thermo-mecanique d'evolution pour le bassin glaciaire
Antarctique Vostok-Glacier Byrd: sensibilite aux valeurs des parametres mal
connus (Univ. de Grenoble, 1992).

T. Sowers, M. Bender, L. D. Labeyrie, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, D. Martinson and
Y. S. Korotkevich, 135 000 year Vostok - SPECMAP common temporal framework.,
Paleoceanogr., 8, 1993, p. 737-766.

J. Jouzel, N. I. Barkov, J. M. Barnola, M. Bender, J. Chappelaz, C. Genthon, V.
M. Kotlyakov, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, J. R. Petit, D. Raynaud, G. Raisbeck, C.
Ritz, T. Sowers, M. Stievenard, F. Yiou and P. Yiou, Extending the Vostok
ice-core record of paleoclimate to the penultimate glacial period, Nature, 364,
1993, 407-412.

C. Waelbroeck, J. Jouzel, L. Labeyrie, C. Lorius, M. Labracherie, M. Stievenard
and N. I. Barkov, Comparing the Vostok ice deuterium record and series from
Southern Ocean core MD 88-770 over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles,
Clim. Dyn., 12, 1995, 113 - 123.

J. Jouzel, C. Waelbroeck, B. Malaiz, M. Bender, J. R. Petit, N. I. Barkov, J.
M. Barnola, T. King, V. M. Kotlyakov, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, D. Raynaud, C.
Ritz and T. Sowers, Climatic interpretation of the recently extended Vostok ice
records, Clim.Dyn.

Get the data at: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/vostok_deld.txt