Paleoclimatology and Relevance To Modern Day Climate Studies
Introduction Paleoclimatology is the study of climates for which direct measurements were not taken (Bradley, 2014). As instrumental records only span a tiny part of Earth history, the reconstruction of ancient climate is important to understand natural variation and the evolution of the current climate. Paleoclimatology uses a variety of proxy methods from the Earth and life sciences to obtain data previously preserved within rocks, sediments, boreholes, ice sheets, tree rings, corals, shells, and microfossils. Combined with techniques to date the proxies,...