Climate Changes: from the Cambrian to the Pleistocene, and from the Late Holocene to the 21th Century

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This study aims at summarising the some important processes that are required to explain the paleoclimate changes and making a detailed explanation and a comparable regional and temporal climatological synthesis of the Holocene epoch, corresponding to the last about 11,000 years of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year long geological and climatic history, in terms of the Science of History. In this respect, by starting from the variability types that occur associated with the internal processes and dynamics (internal variability), some important theoretical subjects were handled in accordance with the purpose of the study. In order to perform this, we focused on the process characterised with relatively high frequency variations, on which we have the greatest information. Consequently, for instance, the issues related with internal variability of the deep ocean circulation and the continental ice sheets (inlandsis), and human-induced climate change occurred after the industrial revolution were not discussed.

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Climate change , Milankovitch cycles , Orbital forcing , Pleistocene Epoch , Holocene Climatic Optimum, ‘Medieval Warm Period’ (Anomaly) , ‘Little Ice Age’

Aegean Geographical Journal

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Aegean Geographical Journal