Tag: climate
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Weekly Science Picks
Good morning. Or good afternoon, or evening, depending on your time zone. But it’s time for Weekly Science Picks, so let’s take a look at some of the stories making headlines in the world of science this week. CLIMATE. 2013 ‘one of warmest’ on record by Roger Harrabin Dr Steve Rintoul, research team leader at…
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Greenland ice core records provide a vision of the future
Ice cores drilled in the Greenland ice sheet, recounting the history of the last great warming period more than 120,00 years ago, are giving scientists their clearest insight to a world that was warmer than today. In a paper published on January 24th 2013, in the journal Nature, scientists have used a 2,540 metre long Greenland ice…