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Earth's Climate System: Paleoclimate

Paleoclimatology studies climate conditions and climate changes in the geologic past.

Paleoclimatology pages at NASA's Earth Observatory (links to additional pages at bottom)

Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing past climate (Page Paleontological Science Center)

Paleoclimatology Visualizations (SERC at Carleton College)

Royer et al.: CO2 as driver of past climate change (GSA Today, 2004)

Staniford: Living in the Eemian (climate change 125,000 years ago; long, detailed, but really excellent post at The Oil Drum).

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Discussion of Zeebe et al (2009) at RealClimate.

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