Progress in Palaeo-Climate Studies

Progress in palaeoclimate, mainly in climatic reconstruction studies for the last twenty years or so, is reviewed. Ten issues are discussed: (1) Wilson Cycle, (2) Ice-Age Epoch, (3) Mass Extinction, (4) Out of Africa, (5) Glacial-Interglacial Cycles in the Quaternary, (6) When will the Earth enter the next Glacial Period ? (7) Last Glacial Maximum, (8) Climatic instability in a glacial period, (9) Climatic instability in the Holocene, (10) Climatic change during the Holocene.