How Ice Age climate got the shakes
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Analysis of ice cores from Greenland reveal that global climate oscillated between cold and warm during the most recent Ice Age. Scientists believe that a combination of ice sheet collapses and changes in ocean currents were responsible for the climatic shifts.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1993
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Upstart ice age theory gets attentive but chilly hearing
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Researchers have propsed a new theory to explain glacial climate cycles. They have presented evidence that the ice age cycles correspond to changes on the inclination of Earth's orbit in relation to the solar system's plane.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
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Chilly ice-age tropics could signal climate sensitivity
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Research on ice-age groundwater in Brazil indicates that tropical areas experienced the same temperature drops as the rest of the world during the ice age. This disputes the conclusions of the influential 1976 CLIMAP study.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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