Paleo-perspectives on ocean acidification

C Pelejero, E Calvo, O Hoegh-Guldberg - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010 - cell.com
The anthropogenic rise in atmospheric CO 2 is driving fundamental and unprecedented
changes in the chemistry of the oceans. This has led to changes in the physiology of a wide …

Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

E Anagnostou, EH John, KM Edgar, GL Foster… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract The Early Eocene Climate Optimum (EECO, which occurred about 51 to 53 million
years ago), was the warmest interval of the past 65 million years, with mean annual surface …

Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

MJ Cramwinckel, M Huber, IJ Kocken, C Agnini, PK Bijl… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Palaeoclimate reconstructions of periods with warm climates and high atmospheric CO2
concentrations are crucial for developing better projections of future climate change. Deep …

The rise and fall of the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse climate

BT Huber, KG MacLeod, DK Watkins… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
A compilation of foraminiferal stable isotope measurements from southern high latitude
(SHL) deep-sea sites provides a novel perspective important for understanding Earth's …

Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide

J Hansen, M Sato, G Russell… - … Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cenozoic temperature, sea level and CO2 covariations provide insights into climate
sensitivity to external forcings and sea-level sensitivity to climate change. Climate sensitivity …

A middle Eocene carbon cycle conundrum

A Sluijs, RE Zeebe, PK Bijl, SM Bohaty - Nature Geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) was an approximately 500,000-year-
long episode of widespread ocean–atmosphere warming about 40 million years ago …

Ocean overturning since the Late Cretaceous: Inferences from a new benthic foraminiferal isotope compilation

BS Cramer, JR Toggweiler, JD Wright… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic (δ18O) and carbon isotopic (δ13C) trends, constructed
from compilations of data series from multiple ocean sites, provide one of the primary means …

A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

H Pälike, MW Lyle, H Nishi, I Raffi, A Ridgwell… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and climate are regulated on geological
timescales by the balance between carbon input from volcanic and metamorphic outgassing …

The role of carbon dioxide during the onset of Antarctic glaciation

M Pagani, M Huber, Z Liu, SM Bohaty, J Henderiks… - science, 2011 - science.org
Earth's modern climate, characterized by polar ice sheets and large equator-to-pole
temperature gradients, is rooted in environmental changes that promoted Antarctic …

Proxy evidence for state-dependence of climate sensitivity in the Eocene greenhouse

E Anagnostou, EH John, TL Babila, PF Sexton… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite recent advances, the link between the evolution of atmospheric CO2 and climate
during the Eocene greenhouse remains uncertain. In particular, modelling studies suggest …