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Climate variation: a simple geological perspective
Author(s) -
Fookes Peter G.,
Lee E. Mark
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.2007.00603.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , simple (philosophy) , geology , feature (linguistics) , climate change , climatology , variation (astronomy) , earth science , physical geography , geography , computer science , epistemology , oceanography , philosophy , linguistics , physics , artificial intelligence , astrophysics
There is much talk about current global warming, but that is not the main subject under discussion here. There is fairly general agreement on climate changes through geological time, and the cause or causes are becoming clearer. In this Feature, a simple backward look is given to climate events, particularly climatic cycles, in geological time, to help get in perspective some of the predictions for our near future.