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reading Earth's weather diary across centuries to predict what tomorrow already wrote down.
means The scientific study of climate — the long-term patterns of weather averaged over decades and centuries, as opposed to the day-to-day forecasting of meteorology.
from A marriage of Greek roots: klima, meaning 'region' or 'zone' — literally the 'slope' or inclination of the Earth toward the sun, which the ancients believed governed each region's weather — joined to -logia, 'the study of.' The klima part is a cousin of words like 'incline' and 'climax,' all tracing back to the Greek klinein, 'to lean.' The full word 'climatology' is a 19th-century scientific coinage, assembled as the systematic study of weather over the long haul matured into its own discipline.
- ice memory
- Greenland cores hold 100,000 years of trapped air
- tree rings
- Tree growth records ancient droughts and volcanic winters
- coined early
- Greek 'klima' meant the slope of the sun
- long game
- Climate is weather averaged over thirty years
- ocean clues
- Coral skeletons log sea temperatures like layered ledgers
mauna loa observatory — hawaii station measuring atmospheric co2 since 1958, showing keeling curve
vostok ice core — antarctica drilling reaching 420,000 years back, revealing past climate cycles