Global Cooling Through Blockchain to Avoid Catastrophic Climate Changes by 2050

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Taskinsoy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Changes ◽  
Global Cooling

The Smithian–Spathian boundary in North Greenland: implications for extreme global climate changes

2019 ◽  
Vol 157 (10) ◽  
pp. 1547-1567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Lindström ◽  
Morten Bjerager ◽  
Peter Alsen ◽  
Hamed Sanei ◽  
Jørgen Bojesen-Koefoed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Changes ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Seasonal Precipitation ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
Global Climate Changes ◽  
Thermal Maximum ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
North Greenland ◽  
Red Bed

AbstractSmithian–lower Anisian strata in Peary Land, North Greenland, were deposited at ∼45° N on the northern margin of Pangaea in offshore to upper shoreface settings. The well-constrained succession (palynology and ammonite biostratigraphy) documents a remarkable shift from lycophyte spore-dominated assemblages in the upper Smithian to gymnosperm pollen-dominated ones in the lower Spathian in concert with a marked shift of +6 ‰ in δ13Corg. Correlation with other Smithian–Spathian boundary sections that record terrestrial floral changes indicates that the recovery of gymnosperms began earlier in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere. The lycophyte-dominated Late Smithian Thermal Maximum is here interpreted as reflecting dry and hot climatic conditions with only brief seasonal precipitation unable to sustain large areas of gymnosperm trees, but able to revive dehydrated lycophytes. This suggests that the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum was a time of widespread aridity, which is also supported by red bed deposition in many areas globally, even as far south as Antarctica. The shift to gymnosperm-dominated vegetation during the cooling across the Smithian–Spathian boundary reflects a change to seasonally more humid climatic conditions favouring gymnosperm recovery, and could have been initiated by increased albedo over land due to the widespread aridity during the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum. The recovery of gymnosperm vegetation would have helped to draw down CO2 from the atmosphere and exacerbate global cooling.

East‐Central Asian Climate Evolved With the Northward Migration of the High Proto‐Tibetan Plateau

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenguang Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Climate Modeling ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Precipitation Pattern ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
Climate Patterns

<div>The evolution of Cenozoic climate patterns in Asia has been linked to uplift of the Tibetan Plateau (TP), retreat of the Paratethys Sea, and global cooling. However, less attention has been placed on the latitudinal change of the TP. Here we report new climate modeling to explore how modern climate changes as a function of topographic growth and spatial migration of the TP. Our results show that the northward displacement of the uplifted proto‐TP within the subtropics can signifificantly affect the wind and precipitation pattern over East‐Central Asia. By compiling proxy‐based climatic records, paleolatitudinal and paleoelevational evolution models of the proto‐TP, and in comparison with previous modeling under a global paleogeography, we suggest that the northward migration of the proto‐TP in the Paleogene could have intensifified the aridity in Central Asia, but its inflfluence on East Asian precipitation and monsoonal circulation could be dependent on the paleogeography and other boundary conditions.</div>

scholarly journals Terrestrial responses of low-latitude Asia to the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition revealed by integrated chronostratigraphy

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 2811-2845
Author(s):  
Y.-X. Li ◽  
W. Jiao ◽  
Z. Liu ◽  
J. Jin ◽  
D. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Shale ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Guangdong Province ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
Sedimentary Records ◽  
Paleomagnetic Study ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
Low Latitudes ◽  
Climate Transition

Abstract. The Paleogene sedimentary records from southern China hold important clues to the impacts of the Cenozoic climate changes on low-latitudes. However, although there are extensive Paleogene terrestrial archives and some contain abundant fossils in this region, few are accurately dated and have a temporal resolution adequate to decipher climate changes. Here we present a detailed stratigraphic and paleomagnetic study of a fossiliferous late Paleogene succession in the Maoming Basin, Guangdong Province. The succession consists of oil shale of the Youganwo Formation (Fm) in the lower part and massive pebbly coarse sandstones of the overlying Huangniuling Fm in the upper part. The conformable transition from oil shale to sandstones represents a major depositional environmental change from a lacustrine to a deltaic environment. The substantially refined chronostratigraphic framework is established based on the litho-, bio-, cyclo-, and magnetostratiphic data that place the environmental transition at 33.88 Ma, coinciding with the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition (EOT) at ~ 33.7 to ~ 33.9 Ma. We suggest that the transition from a lacustrine to deltaic environment in Maoming Basin represents terrestrial responses to the EOT and indicates a significant reduction in hydrodynamics in low-latitude regions during the global cooling at EOT.

Larval Behavior and Protective Implications for Sea Scallops and Surf Clams within the Middle Atlantic Bight: Part Two, Variability of Physical Environment and Larval Behaviors

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Larval Growth ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Larval Behavior ◽  
Larval Release ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Climatic Variations ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Sea Scallops

Larval growth and settlement rates are important larval behaviors for larval protections. The variability of larval growthsettlement rates and physical conditions for 2006-2012 and in the future with potential climate changes was studied using the coupling ROMS-IMBs, and new temperature and current indexes. Forty-four experimental cases were conducted for larval growth patterns and release mechanisms, showing the spatial, seasonal, annual, and climatic variations of larval growthsettlement rates and physical conditions, demonstrating that the slight different larval temperature-adaption and larval release strategies made difference in larval growth-settlement rates, and displaying that larval growth and settlement rates highly depended upon physical conditions and were vulnerable to climate changes.

STUDY OF POND STATUS IN INDIA : A REVIEW

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V.K. YADAV ◽  
SONAM SHARMA ◽  
A.K. SRIVASTAVA ◽  
P.K. KHARE
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Over Exploitation

Ponds are an important fresh water critical ecosystem for plants and animals providing goods and services including food, fodder, fish, irrigation, hydrological cycle, shelter, medicine, culture, aesthetic and recreation. Ponds cover less than 2 percent of worlds land surface. Ponds are important source of fresh water for human use. These are threatened by urbanization, industrialization, over exploitation, fragmentation, habitat destruction, pollution, illegal capturing of land and climate changes. These above factors have been destroying ponds very rapidly putting them in danger of extinction of a great number of local biodiversity. It is necessary to formulate a correct conservation strategy for pond restoration in order to meet the growing needs of fresh water by increasing the human population. Some measures have been compiled and proposed in the present review.

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