Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Tropical climate in the Antarctic: Palm trees once thrived on today’s icy coasts 52 million years ago

ScienceDaily: Given the predicted rise in global temperatures in the coming decades, climate scientists are particularly interested in warm periods that occurred in the geological past. Knowledge of past episodes of global warmth can be used to better understand the relationship between climate change, variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide and the reaction of Earth's biosphere. An international team led by scientists from the Goethe University and the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany,...

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