Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Miocene Antarctic Amplification Episode?

"Our recent study...reconstructed conditions at the Antarctic coast during a warm period of Earth’s history. ...we found the Antarctic coast was covered with tundra vegetation for some periods between 20 million and 15.5 million years ago. ...That temperatures were warm at that time was not a huge surprise; surprising, was how much warmer things were – up to 11ºC (20ºF) warmer at the Antarctic coast!"....
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/07/my-oh-miocene/

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