paleoclimatic
adjective
pa·leo·cli·mat·ic
ˌpā-lē-ō-klī-ˈma-tik 
-klə-
: of, relating to, or being a climate distinctive to a past geologic age
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Jaramillo believes that these results contradict global paleoclimatic models that predict a collapse of Neotropical vegetation due to heat stress.
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Pablo Correa, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
That marks the highest amount measured since 1958 -- the start of the instrumental record -- and in at least the last million years, based on paleoclimatic records, the report found.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2022
Since then, other scholarly papers relying on paleoclimatic data—most of it drawing on state-of-the-art technologies originally designed to understand climate change—have found innumerable instances when shifts in climate helped trigger social and political tumult and, often, collapses.
—Jacques Leslie, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
Our colleagues, Earth systems scientists Neil Edwards and Phil Holden, used paleoclimatic data to tweak our model.
—Pasquale Raia, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019
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Pablo Correa, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
That marks the highest amount measured since 1958 -- the start of the instrumental record -- and in at least the last million years, based on paleoclimatic records, the report found.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2022
Since then, other scholarly papers relying on paleoclimatic data—most of it drawing on state-of-the-art technologies originally designed to understand climate change—have found innumerable instances when shifts in climate helped trigger social and political tumult and, often, collapses.
—Jacques Leslie, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
Our colleagues, Earth systems scientists Neil Edwards and Phil Holden, used paleoclimatic data to tweak our model.
—Pasquale Raia, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2019
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