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November 26, 2013

Greenland's shrunken ice sheet: We've been here before
Buffalo NY (SPX) Nov 26, 2013
Think Greenland's ice sheet is small today? It was smaller - as small as it has ever been in recent history - from 3-5,000 years ago, according to scientists who studied the ice sheet's history using a new technique they developed for interpreting the Arctic fossil record. "What's really interesting about this is that on land, the atmosphere was warmest between 9,000 and 5,000 years ago, maybe as late as 4,000 years ago. The oceans, on the other hand, were warmest between 5-3,000 years ago," said ... read more

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