Greenhouse Gas Drove Climate Change and Ice Volume
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 16:35
in Earth & Climate
New temperature data and numerical climate model simulations contradict the long-held idea that global temperatures were steady in the greenhouse-to-icehouse transition 34 million years ago. This suggests that models in use now to predict climate change may be underestimating future polar warming.
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