The discipline of reconstructing and interpreting climate on a geological rather than a historical timescale. Includes paleoclimatology, which reads past climate from physical evidence preserved in ice cores, sediment layers, fossils and rock rather than from direct atmospheric observation. Belongs here: any discipline whose defining method is the reconstruction of ancient climate from physical proxy evidence. Does not belong here: climatology, which studies climate within the observational and instrumental record (Atmospheric Science). This class holds one live entity today; further paleoclimate subdisciplines have a real home waiting here as later mint waves add them.
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Field of Studyor climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. 1 Browse By
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or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years.
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