I'm not a climate scientist.

I'm a geneticist and I need guidance. Not sure if this is the right place to ask.

 

I've only been browsing the literature and the climate databases for about 2 days, and I really don't want to "waste" time looking for a needle in a hay stack.

 

I'm looking for continuous climate (or CO2 data if need be) estimates of air (or water) temperature dating back to at least 10 mya.

 

1. Do temperature estimates even exist that far back?

 

2. If so, is it all in one publication? citation?

 

3. Is there a direct translation of pCO2 to global temp? E.g. xpCO2 == yTemp?

 

I found: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/326/5958/1394.abstract

 

to give an idea of what I'm looking for.

 

which so far has been the "best" resource, but still not exactly what I'm looking for.

 

 

Try including the term paleoclimatology in your search.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology/

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/proxies/paleoclimate.html

http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/kling/paleoclimate/index.html

Best one is probably here, though: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/recons.html