CO2 Levels Highest in Two Million Years

By studying chemicals in long-dead, single-celled plankton called foraminifera, though, the team behind the new study was able to extend the climate record back 2.1 million years Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jun 22, 2009 - 4:45 AM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 22, 2009

The short report of the study gives historical perspective to todays' problems of global climate change and ocean acidification.

Human population growth needs to be reversed.

The study team, led by geochemist Bärbel Hönisch, found evidence disproving the theory that the longer, stronger ice ages that kicked in about 850,000 years ago were ... More »

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