title: Comment on "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover".
abstract: Cooper et al. (Research Article, 7 August 2015, p. 602) combined the annual-layer-counted Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 with chronological information from the Hulu Cave and Cariaco Basin records to produce a "revised" time scale. We argue that their time scale is incompatible with the nature of annual-layer-counted time scales and may lead to seriously flawed conclusions if used elsewhere at face value.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. olander@nbi.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Sune O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.affiliation: Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
authors.forename: Anders M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Svensson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D057232:Global Warming / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans