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Paleoclimatology
DesertificationThe United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification published a definition in 1995 that described desertification as land degradation in arid, semi-arid…
Abrupt climate changeThe climate system can be forced to transition at a rate determined by its own energy balance. This transition occurs more rapidly than the change in…
Last InterglacialPieter Harting stood in the Dutch countryside near Amersfoort during 1875 and examined boreholes that revealed a strange layer of sediment.
Climate sensitivityThe year 1750 marks the start of the Industrial Revolution, when humans began burning significant amounts of fossil fuel like coal.
Proxy (climate)Reliable global records of climate only began in the 1880s. Before that decade, scientists had no direct meteorological measurements to study Earth's history.