Thanks, you're right that when I referred to warming and cooling stretches, I was omitting mention of stades and interstades; more detail than I wanted to ask about.
I'm looking at the same source pages from globalwarmingart. Our current worry is "2x" rather than "0.5x" CO2 -- that's probably why we see climate sensitivity defined in terms of doubling. http://www.globalwarmingart.com/images/8/8f/Ice_Age_Temperature_Rev.png Just wondered if the paleoclimatology folks distinguish the changes before and after the peak temperatures in their terminology. (When I said "slow" and "out of the oceans" I was referring to the same process you're talking about, biogeochemical cycles; different position of the continents, different currents, and each cycle has had different biology; the coccolithophores are relative newcomers this last cycle for example) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange
