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Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.

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Illuminating carbon's climate effects: Researchers demonstrate role of CO2 in deglaciatio

Harvard scientists are helping to paint the fullest picture yet of how a handful of factors, particularly a worldwide increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, combined to end the last ice age 10,000-20,000 ...

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Carbon dioxide caused global warming at Ice Age's end, pioneering simulation shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate science has an equivalent to the "what came first—the chicken or the egg?" question: What came first, greenhouse gases or global warming? A multi-institutional team led by researchers ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Scientists aboard Iberian coast ocean drilling expedition report early findings

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mediterranean bottom currents and the sediment deposits they leave behind offer new insights into global climate change, the opening and closing of ocean circulation gateways and locations ...

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Huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe

British scientists have discovered an enormous dome of fresh water in the western Arctic Ocean. They think it may result from strong Arctic winds accelerating a great clockwise ocean circulation called the ...

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created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover Icelandic current, change North Atlantic climate picture

An international team of researchers, including physical oceanographers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has confirmed the presence of a deep-reaching ocean circulation system off Iceland ...

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NASA goes below the surface to understand salinity

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Aquarius mission launches this week, its radiometer instruments will take a "skin" reading of the oceans' salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 ...

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created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The Amazon: from wetland to river

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you turn a mega wetland into the world's largest river? By continental tilting, suggests an international team led by a University of Sydney group.

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created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The North Pacific, a global backup generator for past climate change

Toward the end of the last ice age, a major reorganization took place in the current system of the North Pacific with far-reaching implications for climate, according to a new study published in the July 9, ...

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created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Retooling the ocean conveyor belt

For decades, oceanographers have embraced the idea that Earth's ocean currents operate like a giant conveyor belt, overturning to continuously transport deep, cold polar waters toward the equator and warm equatorial surface ...

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created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

NASA Study Finds Atlantic 'Conveyor Belt' Not Slowing

(PhysOrg.com) -- New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no significant ...

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