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  • Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Climate Science
  • Paleoclimatology

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  • The climate system exhibits variability across timescales and is out of equilibrium with radiative forcing.
  • Interpreting geological records is challenging due to time-varying feedback strengths and different past forcing timescales.
  • Understanding climate sensitivity is crucial for predicting future climate change.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review advancements in theoretical climate sensitivity understanding.
  • To assess climate sensitivity estimations from proxy records.
  • To explore the influence of background state-dependent feedbacks and tipping points on climate sensitivity.

Main Methods:

  • Review of theoretical climate sensitivity research.
  • Analysis of paleoclimate proxy data for climate sensitivity estimation.
  • Focus on feedback processes and tipping points in past climate dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Significant progress in understanding climate sensitivity over the past decade.
  • Identification of challenges in applying paleoclimate data due to varying feedbacks and forcing.
  • Highlighting the importance of background state and tipping points for climate sensitivity.

Conclusions:

  • Palaeo data offers valuable constraints for current climate sensitivity, despite past differences in forcing and feedbacks.
  • Further utilization of palaeo data can enhance understanding of ongoing climate change.
  • Insights from geological past are essential for refining present-day climate change predictions.