paleoclimate
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The Atlantic Ocean Hasn’t Been This Hot in at Least 2,900 Years
More than 20 years after intoning, “The water’s getting warm, so you might as well swim,” Smash Mouth’s “All Star” continues to be prophetic. Case in point: A new study finds that the Atlantic Ocean just had its hottest decade in at least 2,900 years. Someone award Smash Mouth a PhD and calculate the h-index…
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Let’s All Take A Breath And Read That ‘Hothouse Earth’ Paper
If the past year of floods, fires, heat waves and droughts are any indicator, climate change is going to be rough. But in case you weren’t already alarmed, a team of prominent climate scientists has penned a paper warning that just 2C of human-caused warming could send us spiralling toward a “hothouse Earth” — one…
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Most Of Greenland Melted In The Recent Past, Study Finds
The Greenland ice sheet contains enough water to raise global sea levels 7m should it all melt. And a massive melt-out is exactly what seems to have happened about a million years ago, according to a groundbreaking analysis of a unique geologic sample from Greenland’s rocky underbelly.
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Maybe We Don’t Have To Nuke Mars (So Much) After All
Terraforming Mars could be our only option once we screw this planet up beyond repair, but how exactly are we going to do it? One popular scheme involves releasing truckloads of nuclear warheads over the poles, unlocking billions of tonnes of frozen carbon dioxide and triggering a runaway greenhouse.