Some Palaeoclimatological Problems Associated with the Present Global Warming

Increasing data and analyses of palaeoclimatology have been seen in the past decade. An attempt is made in this paper to summarize the up-to-date palaeoclimatological research results relevant to the commonly concerned global climate change. It is obvious from the review that a big contribution has made by palaecoclimatologists for the global climate change research and future climate prediction in such aspects as the past greenhouse gas records, the past greenhouse effect analyses, the study of palaeo-analog forecasting method, the investigation of the past snow accumulation rate in Antarctica and Greenland and its implication for global sea-level change, and the documentation of the rapid climate changes in the inter-glacial and late-glacial periods over North Atlantic regions. Palaeoclimatology has also played an important part in testing and calibrating GCMs models.