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Geological Society of London Scientific Statement: what the geological record tells us about our present and future climate
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Geology is the science of how the Earth functions and has evolved and, as such, it can contribute to our understanding of the climate system and how it responds to the addition of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere and oceans. Observations from the geological record show that atmospheric CO2 concentrations are now at their highest levels in at least the past 3 million years. Furthermore, the current speed of human-induced CO2 change and warming is nearly without precedent in the entire ge...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1144/jgs2020-239
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- Geological Society
- Journal:
- Journal of the Geological Society More from this journal
- Volume:
- 178
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- jgs2020-239
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-12-17
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2041-479X
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0016-7649
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English
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1162370
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pubs:1162370
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2021-08-19
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- 2020
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- ©2020 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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