Current global warming appears anomalous in relation to the climate of the last 20 000 years
(2011) Environmental change and socio-economic response in the Baltic region 48(Climate Research 1). p.5-11- Abstract
- To distinguish between natural and anthropogenic forcing, the supposedly ongoing global warming needs to be put in a longer, geological perspective. When the last ca. 20 000 yr of climate development is reviewed, including the climatically dramatic period when the Last Ice Age ended, the Last Termination, it appears that the last centuries of globally rising temperatures should be regarded as an anomaly. Other, often synchronous climate events are not expressed in a globally consistent way, but rather are the expression of the complexities of the climate system. Due to the
often poor precision in the dating of older proxy records, such a statement will obviously be met with some opposition. However, as long as no globally... (More) - To distinguish between natural and anthropogenic forcing, the supposedly ongoing global warming needs to be put in a longer, geological perspective. When the last ca. 20 000 yr of climate development is reviewed, including the climatically dramatic period when the Last Ice Age ended, the Last Termination, it appears that the last centuries of globally rising temperatures should be regarded as an anomaly. Other, often synchronous climate events are not expressed in a globally consistent way, but rather are the expression of the complexities of the climate system. Due to the
often poor precision in the dating of older proxy records, such a statement will obviously be met with some opposition. However, as long as no globally consistent climate event prior to today’s global warming has been clearly documented, and considering that climate trends during the last millennia
in different parts of the world have, in the last century or so, changed direction into a globally warming trend, we ought to regard the ongoing changes as anomalies, triggered by anthropogenically forced alterations of the carbon cycle in the general global environment. (Less)
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- Björck, Svante LU
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- 2011
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Global warming, Long-term perspective, Climate anomaly
- host publication
- Climate Research
- editor
- Wittkowski, Andrzej ; Harff, Jan and Zorita, Eduardo
- volume
- 48
- issue
- Climate Research 1
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- Inter-Research
- conference name
- Environmental change and socio-economic response in the Baltic region
- conference dates
- 2009-05-25 - 2009-05-28
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- wos:000292889700002
- scopus:79960667347
- ISSN
- 0936-577X
- 1616-1572
- DOI
- 10.3354/cr00873
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Contribution to CR Special 26 ‘Environmental change and socio-economic response in the Baltic region’
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abstract = {{To distinguish between natural and anthropogenic forcing, the supposedly ongoing global warming needs to be put in a longer, geological perspective. When the last ca. 20 000 yr of climate development is reviewed, including the climatically dramatic period when the Last Ice Age ended, the Last Termination, it appears that the last centuries of globally rising temperatures should be regarded as an anomaly. Other, often synchronous climate events are not expressed in a globally consistent way, but rather are the expression of the complexities of the climate system. Due to the<br/><br>
often poor precision in the dating of older proxy records, such a statement will obviously be met with some opposition. However, as long as no globally consistent climate event prior to today’s global warming has been clearly documented, and considering that climate trends during the last millennia<br/><br>
in different parts of the world have, in the last century or so, changed direction into a globally warming trend, we ought to regard the ongoing changes as anomalies, triggered by anthropogenically forced alterations of the carbon cycle in the general global environment.}},
author = {{Björck, Svante}},
booktitle = {{Climate Research}},
editor = {{Wittkowski, Andrzej and Harff, Jan and Zorita, Eduardo}},
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keywords = {{Global warming; Long-term perspective; Climate anomaly}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{Climate Research 1}},
pages = {{5--11}},
publisher = {{Inter-Research}},
title = {{Current global warming appears anomalous in relation to the climate of the last 20 000 years}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/1783149/2062990.pdf}},
doi = {{10.3354/cr00873}},
volume = {{48}},
year = {{2011}},
}