Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate?
The timing of initiation of human impacts on the global climate system is actively debated. Anthropogenic effects on the global climate system are evident since the Industrial Revolution, but humans may have altered biomass burning, and hence the climate system, for millennia. We use the specific bi...
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ftpubman:oai:pure.mpg.de:item_2179729 2023-08-20T04:06:51+02:00 Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? Zennaro, P. Kehrwald, N. Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. Bruecher, T. Agostinelli, C. Dahl-Jensen, D. Zangrando, R. Gambaro, A. Barbante, C. 2015-06-28 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0028-2953-E http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0028-295D-9 eng eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/243908 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/2015GL064259 http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0028-2953-E http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0028-295D-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/ Geophysical Research Letters info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 ftpubman https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 2023-08-01T22:19:03Z The timing of initiation of human impacts on the global climate system is actively debated. Anthropogenic effects on the global climate system are evident since the Industrial Revolution, but humans may have altered biomass burning, and hence the climate system, for millennia. We use the specific biomarker levoglucosan to produce the first high-temporal resolution hemispheric reconstruction of Holocene fire emissions inferred from ice core analyses. Levoglucosan recorded in the Greenland North Greenland Eemian ice core significantly increases since the last glacial, resulting in a maximum around similar to 2.5ka and then decreasing until the present. Here we demonstrate that global climate drivers fail to explain late Holocene biomass burning variations and that the levoglucosan maximum centered on similar to 2.5ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland ice core North Greenland Max Planck Society: MPG.PuRe Greenland Geophysical Research Letters 42 12 5023 2033 |
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The timing of initiation of human impacts on the global climate system is actively debated. Anthropogenic effects on the global climate system are evident since the Industrial Revolution, but humans may have altered biomass burning, and hence the climate system, for millennia. We use the specific biomarker levoglucosan to produce the first high-temporal resolution hemispheric reconstruction of Holocene fire emissions inferred from ice core analyses. Levoglucosan recorded in the Greenland North Greenland Eemian ice core significantly increases since the last glacial, resulting in a maximum around similar to 2.5ka and then decreasing until the present. Here we demonstrate that global climate drivers fail to explain late Holocene biomass burning variations and that the levoglucosan maximum centered on similar to 2.5ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. |
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Zennaro, P. Kehrwald, N. Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. Bruecher, T. Agostinelli, C. Dahl-Jensen, D. Zangrando, R. Gambaro, A. Barbante, C. |
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Zennaro, P. Kehrwald, N. Marlon, J. Ruddiman, W. Bruecher, T. Agostinelli, C. Dahl-Jensen, D. Zangrando, R. Gambaro, A. Barbante, C. |
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Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? |
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