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Climatic changes have been detected by means of an appropriate statistical test, the Mann-Kendall rank statistic. Most of the instrumental temperature series exhibit a general warming which support the reality of a 20th century northern hemisphere temperature trend noted by many authors. It clearly appears that this long term warming over which higher frequencies variations are superimposed started generally around 1900 A.D.±25 years and is still presently observed. This continuous warming, corresponding to the low frequency part of the 20th century records, might thus be associated with the observed atmospheric C02 increase during this period. Proxy climatic data over more than 700 kyr show mostly a great number of oscillations marking the transition from full glacial to full interglacial conditions. For the last 150 kyr, results of the test confirm the temperature maximum around 120 kyr BP (before present) followed by a decrease until a minimum around 20 kyr BP and a climatic optimum some 7 kyr ago.
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Goossens, C., Berger, A. (1987). How to Recognize an Abrupt Climatic Change?. In: Berger, W.H., Labeyrie, L.D. (eds) Abrupt Climatic Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 216. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3993-6_3
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