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Re: Nordic Seas Cooled 500,000 Years Before Global Oceans

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nordic Seas Cooled 500,000 Years Before Global Oceans
>> http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/nordic-seas-cooled-500000-years-before-global-oceans.html
> 
> 
>> Abstract
>>
>> The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from
>> 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2
>> concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records indicate that
>> the Nordic Seas cooled during the earliest Pliocene, before global
>> cooling. However, a lack of knowledge regarding the precise timing of
>> Nordic Seas cooling has limited our understanding of the governing
>> mechanisms. Here, using marine palynology, we show that cooling in
>> the Nordic Seas was coincident with the first trans-Arctic migration
>> of cool-water Pacific mollusks around 4.5 million years ago, and
>> followed by the development of a modern-like Nordic Seas surface
>> circulation. Nordic Seas cooling precedes global cooling by 500,000
>> years; as such, we propose that reconfiguration of the Bering Strait
>> and Central American Seaway triggered the development of a modern
>> circulation in the Nordic Seas, which is essential for North Atlantic
>> Deep Water formation and a precursor for more widespread Greenland
>> glaciation in the late Pliocene.
>>
>> Citation
>>
>> Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to
>> ocean gateway changes by De Schepper, S., Schreck, M., Beck, K.M.,
>> Matthiessen, J., Fahl, K. & Mangerud. G.pubihed inNature
>> Communications, DOI:10.1038/ncomms9659.
> 
>   There is a lot of paleoclimate research -- understanding the earth's
>   past climate is essential for current climate modelling. We are in a
>   race -- right now it looks like we are toast.

Utter fucking nonsense, shit head. 


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Jim Pennino

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Nordic Seas Cooled 500,000 Years Before Global Oceans Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 20:48 -0500
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