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Progress in Physical Geography, Vol. 23, No. 2, 181-204 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/030913339902300202
© 1999 SAGE Publications

Palaeoenvironmental evidence for solar forcing of Holocene climate: linkages to solar science

Frank M. Chambers

Centre for Environmental Change and Quaternary Research, GEMRU, CGCHE, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham GL50 4AZ, UK

Michael I. Ogle

Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

Jeffrey J. Blackford

Department of Geography, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London E1 4NS, UK

Current concern over ‘greenhouse’ warming and possible human influence upon global climate has been countered by claims that recent advances in solar theory demonstrate a greater role than previously thought for solar forcing in recent climate change. This is still disputed for this century, but new evidence from a range of palaeoenvironmental indicators lends strong support to the notion that not only the long-term (105 to 103 years) climate changes of the Pleistocene but also short-term (101 to 102 years) climate changes in the Holocene may derive in large or small part from solar variability. Evidence from recent research into proxy climate records is reviewed and set in the context of recent advances elsewhere in studies of late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and in solar science.

Key Words: climate change • cosmic ray flux • 14C record • Holocene • palaeoclimate • proxy climate indicators • solar cycle • solar forcing • solar variability


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