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There's an interesting discussion of this event here with quotes and links to many RS's. Good resource for expanding this section. I'll get back to it when time permits. Interesting topic, and pertinent to the AGW debate. -- Pete Tillman ( talk) 02:17, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Is a correction required? .... Novice User, not registered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.250.193.219 ( talk) 22:00, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
1. The Lead section is very direct and clear and gets the reader interested in the topic. 2. The Onset section could use more (updated) information a couple more images, and the "West Antarctic Ice Sheet" section could be placed in the previous section. 3. The comparison to Future climate may have space for a lot more information, which is expected since the topic has not been reviewed since 2014. 4. The Setting statement seems biased by the one and only citation (which is not as reliable source as needed), and ideally we should avoid the usage of value statements such as setting the Eastern Siberia core which is called “exceptional”, while the content of the research with this core is not well explained. 5. Finally, the DOI references are correct, however the NASA links do not work anymore. 65Eq ( talk) 18:33, 24 April 2017 (UTC)65Eq
This article contains the phrase "Decreasing carbon dioxide levels during the late Pliocene," but can it be added to this article how and why CO2 levels decreased at that time? 173.88.246.138 ( talk) 02:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
I see no reason why the Pliocene's climate should merit its own separate article when this is not the case for any other epoch, many of which had far more remarkable, noteworthy, and/or unusual climates. The only particularly notable thing about it is that the Pliocene is often used as an analogue for future warming, but that also applies to the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum, the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, the Early Toarcian Thermal Maximum, the Triassic-Jurassic Thermal Maximum, the Permian-Triassic Thermal Maximum, and the Emeishan Thermal Maximum, and a page about comparative palaeoclimatology between the present and various past epochs would be more substantive if that is the rationale for keeping the article on Pliocene climate separate from the article on the Pliocene. A separate article that's specifically about the Middle Pliocene Warm Interval, which is the part of the Pliocene that is usually compared to hypothetical future climates, might also be worthwhile. Anteosaurus magnificus ( talk) 06:18, 19 December 2023 (UTC)