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Re: The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-abrupt-climate-shifts-affect-earth.html
> 
>> New research shows how past abrupt climatic changes in the North
>> Atlantic propagated globally. The study, led by researchers from
>> Centre for Ice and Climate at the University of Copenhagen's Niels
>> Bohr Institute, shows how interaction between heat transport in the
>> ocean and the atmosphere caused the climatic changes to be expressed
>> in different ways across the Southern Hemisphere. The results shows
>> how forcing the climate system into a different state can trigger
>> climate variations that spread globally and have very different
>> impacts in different regions of Earth. This is important now, where
>> rising atmospheric CO2 levels lead to global warming and may trigger
>> abrupt climatic changes.
>>
>> The results have been published in the scientific journal Nature
>> Geoscience.
>>
>> The history of climate on Earth is stored in tiny variations in
>> kilometer-thick ice cores, sediments from lakes and oceans, and other
>> natural archives that are layered down over thousands of years and
>> works as archives of past temperatures. By recovering and deciphering
>> these archives, researchers can reveal how and why the climate
>> changed in the past, and in this way learn how the climate system may
>> react in the future as the planet warms and the ice sheets melt.
> 
 
Yawn.


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Jim Pennino

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The past shows how abrupt climate shifts affect Earth Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-09 18:32 -0600
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