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Chapter 5 Supplemental Materials: Dioxide in Earth's Climate History

This document provides supplemental materials for Chapter 5 including videos, papers, and websites focusing on CO2 and climate change during the Phanerozoic era. It includes an overview of key papers examining Phanerozoic CO2 and carbon cycling and resources from organizations like the IPCC and NOAA on modern climate change topics.

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Chapter 5 Supplemental Materials: Dioxide in Earth's Climate History

This document provides supplemental materials for Chapter 5 including videos, papers, and websites focusing on CO2 and climate change during the Phanerozoic era. It includes an overview of key papers examining Phanerozoic CO2 and carbon cycling and resources from organizations like the IPCC and NOAA on modern climate change topics.

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Chapter 5 Supplemental Materials

For an engaging overview of Phanerozoic climate watch the AGU 2009


Bjerknes Lecture
video (~ 50 minutes) by Dr. Richard Alley, The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon
Dioxide in Earth's Climate History
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/lectures/videos.php
This chapter focused on several key papers that examine Phanerozoic CO2
and carbon cycling. In particular follow-up discussions could focus on critical
reading of the following (full citation given in the Reference section below):
o Berner (1999) for a discussion of the long term carbon cycle
o Joos and Spahni (2008) for a comparison of natural and anthropogenic
radiative forcing
o Royer (2004) for a reconstruction of Phanerozoic CO2 based on model
and proxy data. A good follow-up to this 2004 paper is: Royer, D.L.
(2006). CO2-forced climate thresholds during the Phanerozoic,
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 5665-5675.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has numerous
references online (http://www.ipcc.ch/) for scientists and non-scientists. The
2007 Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers is a good place to begin:
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/syr/en/spm.html
The Encyclopedia of Earth has a wide variety of online resources on modern
climate change (causes, consequence):
http://www.eoearth.org/climatechange and
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Site_Map_for_the_Climate_Change_Collectio
n?topic=49491 For example,
o A synopsis of NOAA data that finds 2011 is the 9th warmest year on
record (since 1880);
http://www.eoearth.org/news/view/172896/?topic=49491.
o A synopsis of NIH research on the health effects of climate change;
http://www.eoearth.org/news/view/170725/?topic=49491.
o A definition of radiative forcing,
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Radiative_forcing.
Monthly updates of atmospheric CO2 concentrations measured at Mauna Loa
Observatory, Hawaii, can be found at: www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
In Part 5.4 the early Phanerozoic glaciation (~440 Ma) is puzzling because it
doesnt seem to match model results of high CO2. This puzzle is directly
addressed in the following two papers:
o Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Patzkowsky, M.E., Gibbs, M.T., Pinkus, D.S.,
and Sheehan, P.M., (1999). A weathering hypothesis for glaciations at
high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician, Palaeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 152, 173-187.
o Young, S.A., Saltzman, M.R., Ausich, W.I., Desrochers, A., and Kaljo,
D., (2010). Did changes in atmospheric CO2 coincide with latest
Ordovician glacial-interglacial cycles?, Palaeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 296, Issue 3-4, 376-388.
This exercise focused on carbon dioxide (CO2) during the Phanerozoic. For an
analysis of methane (CH4) during the Phanerozoic see: Bartdorff, O.,
Wallmann, K., Latif, M., and Semenov (2008), Phanerozoic evolution of
atmospheric methane, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB1008,
doi:10.1029/2007GB00298.

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