Lecture 15: Past Climate

1. Changing climate
2. Stable isotopes
3. Cenozoic climate

We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

The long term carbon cycle (a model)

How does climate change?

How do we measure past climate change?

Stable isotopes: notation

Stable isotopes: oxygen isotopes in the ocean

Compilation from Zachos et al., 2001