Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of climatic conditions, and their causes and effects, in the geologic past, using evidence found in glacial deposits, fossils, and sediments.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The study of climatic conditions of the past periods of geologic time. It is based upon the examination of a large body of paleontologic and stratigraphic evidence; geographical distribution, migration, and evolution of fossil faunas and floras; upon the kind and degree of rock-disintegration during various geologic epochs; and also upon chemical and physical researches upon the interrelations of the constituents of the atmosphere and the oceanic waters with the deposition of carbonate rocks.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of palaeoclimatology.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the study of the climate of past ages
Examples
“One fact about which general public is not aware: there are two climate sciences, the one called paleoclimatology, and the one more known due media hype - computer modelling of the present climate system.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Fritts 2003, it has not been addressed in long-term paleoclimatology reconstructions.”
“People make extravagant claims -- "As certain as gravity," says Al Gore -- about a branch of science, paleoclimatology, that is only 25 years old (the first textbook on paleoclimate came out in 1980).”
I Trust My Statistical Intuition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“First is paleoclimatology, that is reconstruction of climate of the past.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“I wikipediaed not a real word the word paleoclimatology it tell what it is but not when the science started, who coined the term the first degrees who got first degrees, is there a degree in it?”
“The main impact of Climategate is casting doubt on paleoclimatology, that is trying to reconstruct the past few millennia of climate to assess how anomalous the current warming is.”
“Other fields, such as paleoclimatology or paleo-anything are exercises in historical interpretation, and involve trying to match a theory to an inferred proxy data set that implies a variable of interest.”
“Climate change crops up a lot, most notably in the sessions on atmospheric sciences and global environmental change, but also in sessions on the cryosphere, ocean sciences, biogeosciences, paleoclimatology, and hydrology.”
AGU Day 0: Restarting the Climate Conversation | Serendipity
“As for thinking that it is “Better that nothing appear, than something unacceptable to us” …. .as though we are the gatekeepers of all that is acceptable in the world of paleoclimatology seems amazingly arrogant.”
“Mr. Gore and others that have bought into ‘man-made global warming’ or ‘climate change’ or whatever the next catch phrase for this movement will be, need to take a paleoclimatology class.”
Al Gore will answer your question until they kill the mic | EW.com
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paleo-, palaeo-
older or ancient
Paleolithic, paleoclimatology, paleontology, paleobiology, paleontologist, paleozoic, paleozoology, paleontological
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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Science
chorology, chronobiology, climatology, cosmology, cryptozoology, dendrochronology, embryology, endocrinology, epidemiology, ethnology, ethology, etiology and 26 more...
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