There is writing in an ancient script, Paleo-Hebrew, which was used by Jews largely for ceremonial purposes.

ECONOMIST: Whatever happened to the Hebrew Christians?

Old Paleo-Inuit archaeological sites are also common, and are usually ideal landing spots to see both terrestrial and marine wildlife.

BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

One, championed by James Kennett, a paleo-oceanographer from the University of California, Santa Barbara, is that it was indeed released from clathrates.

ECONOMIST: Methane and climate change

The director, Antoine Fuqua, is trying to appeal both to liberals and to the paleo-conservatives who hate big government and big corporations alike.

NEWYORKER: Shooter

"I think people are far more interested in CRU's corrections, in homogenisation of data, and far more interested in their paleo-climatic data, " said Dr Jones.

BBC: Climate unit releases virtually all remaining data

The debate will be painful, as neoconservatives, paleo-conservatives, progressive conservatives, moderates and libertarians battle it out to chart the course for a new and more vibrant party.

CNN: Commentary: 5 reasons GOP will rebound

Many conservative activists would like to pin the blame on Mr Bush alone either because he pursued foolish policies (the paleo-conservative version) or because he pursued sensible policies in a cack-handed manner (the neoconservative version).

ECONOMIST: The American right

They then used that proxy data, which they dubbed the Paleo Index (PI) and compared it to the merged land-ocean surface temperature (MLOST) records developed by the National Climactic Data Center.

FORBES: New Study Shows Independent Evidence Of Global Warming