The climate record -- stretching back more than 750, 000 years -- can be read in the sediments and ice layers from Asia to Greenland.
This makes Lake Vostok a place of great scientific interest, because the ice sheet above the lake provides the longest uninterrupted climate record known to exist.
But opposition politicians said the SNP had resorted to blaming the weather instead of their record on climate change.
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On Monday, the World Meteorological Organization of the UN said greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change have reached record levels in the atmosphere and show no sign of receding.
Mrs Beckett defended Britain's record on climate change, saying that although it had not met its own "very stringent" target on emissions it had met - and exceeded - its Kyoto Protocol target three years early.
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The lake is said to retain an excellent record of past climate change which can be inferred from the types and abundance of algae and other organic matter found in its bed muds.
This allows us to integrate what we see from the fossil record with data on climate change and changes in flora and fauna that we see around us today.
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But the main external candidate is solar, and more work is required to improve the "paleo" solar forcing record and to understand how the climate system responds both globally and regionally to solar forcing.
No program should expect to be continued with that kind of track record, especially in our current fiscal climate.
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The spring brought below-average rainfalls in states such as Illinois and Indiana, and the warmest average temperatures in the Midwest for the first five months of the year on record, according to the Midwestern Regional Climate Center.
In this biological edifice of loss, one point stands out: we need to understand climate change not just in terms of the historical record, but in the full realization that it is driving possibly millions of other species and trillions of individuals to untimely graves.
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He posts a very short section of the temperature record, backed by the ranges of the climate models, with the claim spread above it that climate models perform badly.
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While Ameresco has continued to execute well on projects, maintaining or improving operating margins and increasing their backlog of awarded projects to a record level, third quarter revenue plunged as the climate of uncertainty and greater concerns about debt led customers to proceed with extreme caution finalizing projects.
Furthermore, the fact that you insist that climate scientists are lying is ironic given that you have a track record of posting misinformation in your weekly opinion pieces at Forbes.
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Such tree-ring records, along with other so-called proxy archives, can provide a wealth of information about volcanic events and their varying impacts around the globe because of resulting shifts in atmospheric circulation and other climate changes, dating for centuries prior to the period of instrumental record.
Shadow economic secretary Cathy Jamieson said she was proud of the record of the last Labour government's efforts to tackle climate change.
The National Climate Data Center announced this week that 2012 was the hottest year on record, crushing the previous hottest year, 1998, by a full degree.
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Yet both years were the hottest La Nina years on record and that shows the underlying global warming at work, said climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Max Planck Institute in Germany.
The recruitment company's annual review of the oil and gas sector analysed the impact of the record breaking 27th licensing round which saw the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) award 167 new licences on more than 300 North Sea blocks in October 2012.
Alexander's record on globalisation, however, is the more appealing in the current business climate.
Climate change has arrived. 2012 is in the books as one of the warmest years on record, and extreme costly weather events are becoming the norm rather than the exception.
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Scottish Green leader Robin Harper said it was "hard to be kind" about the government's record on the environment, but welcomed the ruling out of new nuclear power stations and its climate change fund.
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