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Summary And Transition: Past, Present And Future Climates
Western Interior Paleontological Society
Paul E. Belanger, Ph.D.
WIPS 1ST VP
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSBob Raynolds
Jonathan Bujak
Dag Nummedal
Ian Miller
Peggy LeMone
Caspar Ammann …et al. that I did not mean to omit
Global Warming/Climate Change – Resource Issues – Alternatives Study Group:
FTP SITE: https://sslaccess.elkresources.net/files/
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THE PRESENT IS THE KEY TO THE PAST (LYELL) IS also
THE KEY TO THE FUTURE
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THE PAST
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FROM CSI TO GSI:GEOLOGICAL SAMPLE
INVESTIGATION
LET THE EVIDENCE SPEAK
FOR ITSELF
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WE CALL THIS EVIDENCE
“PROXY” DATA
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• Strandlines/shorelines• Moraines• Till• Kettle lakes, etc.
SOME OF THE EARLIEST PROXY DATA
WAS FROM TERRESTRIAL DEPOSITS
We may know what caused these today, but imagine back then?
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IT’S THE INTERPRETATION THAT’S NOT ALWAYS CORRECT
Darwin observed ancient Alpine shorelines:
interpreted as ocean shoreline
Agassiz – later correctly interpreted as ice-dammed lake-shore strandlines/shoreline
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• Jean Louis R. Agassiz
• “Father” of Glaciology
• 1807-1873
• Paleontologist
• Glaciologist
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Photographic proxy data/evidence
Ruddiman, 2008
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EARLY PROXY DATA:
TREE RINGS
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Pollen & Lake core data
Ruddiman, 2008
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PROXY DATA:
POLLEN DATA
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PROXY DATA:
LEAVES
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Tree rings, corals, ice cores
Ruddiman, 2008
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PROXY DATA:
ICE CORES
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TERRESTRIAL DATA
North American:
Wisconsin
Illinoian
Kansan
Nebraskan
European:
Wurm
Riss
Mindel
Gunz
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LATER EVIDENCE CAME FROM
THE MARINE RECORD
NOT WITHOUT IT’S PROBLEMS,
BUT MORE COMPLETE
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CesareEmilani:
Paleontologist,Chemist
Father of Paleoceanography
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Other Paleoceanographers
Wally Broecker
Thermal-haline
“conveyor” belt of circulation
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Bill Ruddiman
Nick Shackleton
Other Paleoceanographers
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Other Paleoceanographers
John Imbrie:
CLIMAP
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PROXY DATA:
CORE DATA
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PROXY DATA:
BENTHIC
FORAMS
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PROXY DATA:
PLANKTONIC
FORAMS
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Deep Sea Coring
Ruddiman, 2008
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Wikipedia
Proxy data: stable isotopes
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- SO – WHAT CONTROLS
CLIMATE
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Gerhard et al., 2001
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OF HUGE IMPORTANCE:
•DISTRIBUTION OF CONTINENTS WITH RESPECT TO LATITUDE
•OCEAN CIRCULATION
•OPENING OF THE DRAKE PASSAGE:
ISOLATING ANTARCTICA
•BARRIERS TO EQUATORIAL CIRCULATION:
CLOSING OF ISTHMUS OF PANAMA 3-5 Ma
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bipolar glaciation
geologically rare
possibly unique
we think of this as ‘normal’…but
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Icehouse Earth
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Milankovitchcycles
(forcing factors)
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MILANKOVITCH CYCLES ARE
REFLECTED IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD
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Wikipedia
Cenozoic Climate Record
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Wikipedia
Climate Changes from Ocean Sediment Cores, since 5 Ma. Milankovitch Cycles
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Brook, 2008 Nature
The Ice Record: MilankovitchEmpirical
Interpreted
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Gerhard et al., 2001
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BUT IS THIS CORRECT?
Does CO2 always have a lesser role in controlling climate?
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HERE’S THE LONG TERM RECORD
Shellito
Fricke
Jacobs
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Snowball Earth
~650 Ma
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WHAT CONTROLS THE LONG-TERM RECORD?
IS IT STRICTLY CONTINENTAL POSITIONS
AND OCEANIC CIRCULATION?
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TODAY WE SAW EOCENE EVIDENCE
OF A WARMER CLIMATE
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BallantyneShellito
Fricke
Jacobs
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In particular we saw a VERY DRAMATIC increase in temperature in an
environment of already HIGH CO2 VALUES when there was an additional
spike of Methane and CO2
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Wikipedia
Proxy data: stable isotopes
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Fossil Lotus
Courtesy K. Johnson
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Living LotusCourtesy K. Johnson
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BUT MARY KRAUS DIDN’T TELL US ABOUT THIS GUY!
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RECENT FIND IN COLUMBIA
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HERE’S NEW COMPELLING DATA FROM THE EOCENE
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Early Eocene supergreenhousewas followed immediately by abrupt global cooling
What forced this change?
Bujak, pers. Comm.
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ACEX – ARCTIC CORING EXPEDITION
Expedition 302 - Arctic Coring Expedition
August-September 2004
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Lomonosov Ridge
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P/E World
No Polar Ice Caps
From Blakey (2007)
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ARCTIC EVENTS PROXY DATA
Brinkhuis et al,, 2006
Moran et al., 2006
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THE EVIDENCE DOCUMENTS AN
800,000 YEARS SEQUESTRATION
EVENT CALLED THE AZOLLA
EVENT
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ACEX results
• 1400 ft (420m) cored section
• good Paleocene Eocene section recovered
• cored the “Azolla event”
• cored the PETM
Bujak, pers. Comm.
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ACEX Azolla core
• >8 metre ACEX core with 90% Azolla
• Azolla occurs as laminated layers
• indicates Azolla deposited in situ
• bottom-water anoxia at ACEX site
Bujak, pers. Comm.
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?
Azolla eventbase middle Eocene49 Ma
Bujak, pers. Comm.
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the massive decrease in
atmospheric CO2?
Bujak, pers. Comm.
UNPRECEDENTED DROP IN CO2
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the fastest growing plant on the planet!
it can double its biomass in 2 to 3
days
Bujak, pers. Comm.
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the key is in Azolla’s leaf
structure
source: Carrapiço, 2002
Bujak, pers. Comm.
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Not unlike the increase GHGs at Paleocene-Eocene causing a significant warming, there appears to be a strong suggestion that this Azolla sequestration of carbon GHGs for a period of about 800,000 years correlates to an ensuing cooling of the globe.
That is NOT to say tectonic events like the opening of the Drake Passage are not also of great significance – particularly in the isolation of Antarctica and its subsequent glaciation and contribution to global cooling.
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HERE’S THE LONG TERM RECORD
Shellito
Fricke
Jacobs
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FOR LONG-TERM CLIMATIC CHANGES
THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS:
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Royer et al., 2003
Geologic cycles: Climate through
the Phanero-
zoic—carbon is the culprit
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IMAGINE THIS:
IT’S ALSO TRUE FOR OTHER PLANETS
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No sinks: Runaway Greenhouse Effect
• 97% carbon dioxide• 3% nitrogen• Water & sulfuric acid
clouds• Temperature:
>800°F – more than twice as hot as Mercury
Venus
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The Many Time Scales of Climate Change• Daily to several years: Weather – not Climate
1oUNDER THE INFLUENCE OF solar, El Ninos, volcanism, INCREASE IN GHGs, etc. •Century: the climate change the IPCC and people everywhere are worried about, because it affects the economy of society, and tracks man’s direct impact
• Centuries to millennia – Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles; Heinrich events
1oUNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MILANKOVITCH CYCLES, although abrupt & rapid changes in CO2 (as occurred at the PETM) can be influential
• 20Ka to 400 Ka years – Milankovitch cycles - insolation due to earth’s orbital changes
1oUNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CO2
• 1Ma to many millions (Ma) years – Pennsylvanian ‘ice house’ and Cretaceous ‘greenhouse’ due to plate tectonic cycles of continental assembly and break-up and vertical movements. Cycling of CO2 into and out of earth
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The Many Time Scales of Climate Change(cont.)
Unique events: “Snowball earth” in late Proterozoic (and more?)Large volcanic eruptions (OAE-2 at C/T boundary)PETM – major heat spike release of methane clathrates
Message: Don’t confuse the causes of climate change at one time scale with the drivers of change at another.
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The Long-term carbon cycle and Earths climate:
Carbon cycles:Long-term carbon cycle (millions of yrs)
• Driver of long-term climate changes along with continental and ocean-circulation changes
• Responsible for Icehouses/GreenhousesShort-term carbon cycle (~1,000s to 1,000,000 yrs)
• CO2 currently amplifies glacial-interglacial contrasts
Long-term carbon cycle and today:• Burning fossil fuels is like setting off volcanoes >100
times faster than present eruptions rates• Running a global experiment, which in not analogous
to glacial-interglacials – BUT MAY BE ANALOGOUS to the PETM.
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THE PRESENT(and near future)
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THE PRESENT
So what’s going on today?
What’s going to happen in the short-term?
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Today’s Unique Event: Anthropogenic Global Warming
Today
CO2 for thepast 400 ky
Pliocene levelsof 385ppm
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1946 – 1950
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
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2002 - 2006Temperature
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Arctic Sea Ice Extent
If sea-ice continues to contract rapidly over the next several years, Arctic land warming and permafrost thaw are likely to accelerate.David Lawrence, NCAR
Satellite imagery of sea ice extent in September1979, and at a record low in September 2007. Source: NASA
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NOAA web site archives & Peter Tans
The State of Affairs
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Wikipedia
Distribution of Warming: Polar/Cold Regions
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HOWEVER: THE LATEST DATA THRU 2007
SUGGESTS GREEN HOUSE GASES ARE MATCHING AND OVERTAKING
TSI VARIATIONS
NCAR: Caspar Amman, 2007
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LOWER VS. UPPER ATM.
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WikipediaSolar irradiance: 342 W/m2
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CHOICES• DO NOTHING and adapt (there WILL be a REAL cost here too)
• MITIGATE (or attempt to) and adapt:– Sequester– Alternate energy sources– Geo-Engineering options– Etc.
• Promote population control: “wear a condom at every ‘conceivable’ moment”
• THINK about it
• But ultimately: CHOOSE WHAT TO DO IN LIFE BEFORE LIFE CHOOSES WHAT YOU DO
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THE FUTURE(Beyond the Anthropomorphic Period)
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FUTURE CLIMATE?
Crowley & Hyde, 2008
PAST
FUTURE
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FUTURE CLIMATE?
Crowley & Hyde, 2008
PAST
FUTURE
Higher
Lower
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-Glacial
Interglacial
PAST
FUTURE
Higher
Lower
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-Glacial
Interglacial
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FUTURE CLIMATE?
Crowley & Hyde, 2008
PAST
FUTURE
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Look at the Trend:Any reason to think it might not
continue?
Time, Ma
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IN SUMMARY:THE PASTPRESENT
AND FUTURE
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BallantyneShellito
Fricke
Jacobs
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TOMORROW(AS IN 14 HOURS FROM NOW)
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Western Interior Paleontological SocietyFounders Symposium
Sunday, March 15th 2009
NCAR/UCAR: NOAA:
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NCAR/UCAR GUIDES(Coordinated by Peggy LeMone)
BE THERE AT 8:30 a.m. / 1:00 p.m.2 Groups
Kyle Ham• Current Position: Education Specialist and Bilingual
Educator• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
(UCAR)• Office of Education and Outreach
Teri Eastburn,• Coordinator, Public Programs• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
(UCAR)• Office of Education and Outreach
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NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration)
(Coordinated by Dan Winester) BE THERE AT 8:30 a.m. / 1:00 p.m.
Groups of 3
Don Mock, William Murtagh, George Sharman, & Sandy MacDonald:
NOAA; ESRL (Earth Systems Research Lab); SWPC (Space Weather Prediction Center); NGDC (National Geophysical Data Center)
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NOAA (cont.)
SOS: Science on a Sphere. This a 3D display of global (and astronomic) projected onto a large sphere. The audience can view and walk around the sphere to bet a global view of data sets. NOAA has over 200 data sets, including time-varying ones. Such data sets as atmospheric processes, plate tectonics, topography, lights at night etc. (40 minutes)
ESRL and other NOAA (Earth Systems Research Lab): (40 minutes)Greenhouse gas lab weather forecast officeWind profilerHigh performance computing centerOzone chemistry
SWPC: Space Weather Prediction Center (20 minutes)Effect of solar storms on electrical transmission, broadcasts, animal navigationGeomagnetic disturbances
NGDC: National Geophysical Data Center (20 minutes)Large array storageNight time lightsPaleoclimatology (Tree rings, ice cores, geologic cores)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSBob Raynolds
Jonathan Bujak
Dag Nummedal
Ian Miller
Peggy LeMone
Caspar Ammann …et al. that I did not mean to omit
Global Warming/Climate Change – Resource Issues – Alternatives Study Group:
FTP SITE: https://sslaccess.elkresources.net/files/
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Western Interior Paleontological Society
QUESTIONS?