paleoclimatic
Adjective
Meaning
paleoclimatic (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to the climate of a region in the past
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Examples
Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
If so, then the Younger Dryas is not the unique paleoclimatic event, in terms of size, extent, and rapidity, as it has been often regarded to be.
The paleoclimatic proxies found in Greenland ice cores show only a short-term climatic deterioration.