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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ftutrentoiris:oai:iris.unitn.it:11572/127849 2024-02-11T10:04:15+01:00 Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? Piero, Zennaro Natalie, Kehrwald Jennifer, Marlon William, F. Ruddiman Tim, Brücher Agostinelli, Claudio Dorthe, Dahl Jensen Roberta, Zangrando Andrea, Gambaro Barbante, Carlo Piero, Zennaro Natalie, Kehrwald Jennifer, Marlon William, F. Ruddiman Tim, Brücher Agostinelli, Claudio Dorthe, Dahl Jensen Roberta, Zangrando Andrea, Gambaro Barbante, Carlo 2015 http://hdl.handle.net/11572/127849 https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL064259 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000358002500047 volume:42 issue:12 firstpage:5023 lastpage:5033 numberofpages:11 journal:GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/243908 http://hdl.handle.net/11572/127849 doi:10.1002/2015GL064259 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84948713124 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL064259 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 ftutrentoiris https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064259 2024-01-16T23:12:21Z 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 ~2.5 ka 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 ~2.5 ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland ice core North Greenland Università degli Studi di Trento: CINECA IRIS 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 ~2.5 ka 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 ~2.5 ka may be due to anthropogenic land clearance. |
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Piero, Zennaro Natalie, Kehrwald Jennifer, Marlon William, F. Ruddiman Tim, Brücher Agostinelli, Claudio Dorthe, Dahl Jensen Roberta, Zangrando Andrea, Gambaro Barbante, Carlo Europe on fire three thousand years ago: Arson or climate? |
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