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Solving puzzle ice age climates: Southern Ocean & explanation for 'Last Glacial Maximum'

2014-06-03 12:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: The paleoclimate record for the last ice age -- a time 21,000 years ago called the "Last Glacial Maximum" (LGM) -- tells of a cold Earth whose northern continents were covered by vast ice sheets. Chemical traces from plankton fossils in deep-sea sediments reveal rearranged ocean water masses, as well as extended sea ice coverage off Antarctica. Air bubbles in ice cores show that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was far below levels seen before the Industrial Revolution. While ice ages are set...

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