Climate change: Circulation of Atlantic Ocean was faster during last Ice Age than today
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 15 October, 2012
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Heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean during the last Ice Age was not weaker, as long assumed, but in fact stronger than it is today. Scientists used ultra-precise measurements of natural radionuclides in ocean sediments to study the ocean's strength of circulation and uncovered new information about the past of the "Atlantic heat pump."...