As technology improves, he said, clues from bogs could be used to model future climates.
Modeling is used for understanding past, present and potential future climates.
Now, for the first time, scientists are beginning to look at the future climate in the same way.
Climate models are mathematical models of past, present and future climates.
The future climate is also likely to include an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme temperatures.
The mid Pliocene warm period is considered a potential analog of future climate.
A future political climate, after 2008, he said, might produce "solutions less sensitive to the needs of business."
His research has mainly involved using climate models to study past, present, and future climates.
This has not yet been included in models of the future climate.
Mark Chandler uses past climates to see what Earth's future climate may be.