Simultaneous ice melt in Antarctic and Arctic
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 2 December, 2011
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A new article shows that the two hemispheres attained their maximum ice sheet size at nearly the same time and started melting 19,000 years ago. This simultaneous melting was presumably caused by changes in the global sea level and deepwater circulation in the Atlantic Ocean....