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August 19, 2013

Antarctic ice core sheds new light on how the last ice age ended
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 19, 2013
Analysis of an ice core taken by the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide drilling project reveals that warming in Antarctica began about 22,000 years ago, a few thousand years earlier than suggested by previous records. This timing shows that West Antarctica did not "wait for a cue" from the Northern Hemisphere to start warming, as scientists had previously supposed. For more than a century scientists have known that Earth's ice ages are caused by ... read more

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