Climate history

[DominusNovus]

Anyone know a good place where I can find a history of earth's climate? Like when major climate effecting events happend (krakatoa, for example) or when stuff like the little ice age were strongest, weakest, etc.

[wkwillis]

Originally Posted by DominusNovus

Anyone know a good place where I can find a history of earth's climate? Like when major climate effecting events happend (krakatoa, for example) or when stuff like the little ice age were strongest, weakest, etc.

Baillie-Exodus to Arthur, or From Exodus to Arthur
This is the dendrochronolgy guy. Studies tree rings looking for bad weather. A thin tree ring is bad weather. A tree ring with holes in it from ice damage is really bad weather. We can correlate buried wood tree rings back 12,000 years. This is direct evidence of weather so bad the Nile freezes over.

Keys-Catastrophe
This is the glacier acid layers guy. Studies levels of H2SO4 in Greenland and Antarctica, looking for volcano traces. Volcano eruptions make bad weather. We can follow these traces back 100,000 years, but it's indirect evidence. It agrees mostly with the dendrochronology.