Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Result of CO2 Decrease, Not Continental Breakup
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
Climate modelers have shown that the most likely explanation for the initiation of Antarctic glaciation 34 million years ago was decreased carbon dioxide levels, contrary to a 40-year-old theory suggesting massive rearrangements of Earth's continents caused the abrupt formation of the Antarctic ice sheet.