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April 04, 2013

Ancient pool of warm water questions current climate models
London UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2013
A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes. Present in the Pliocene era, this giant mass of water would have dramatically altered rainfall in the tropics, possibly even removing the monsoon. Its decay and the consequential drying of East Africa may have been a factor in Hominid evolution. Published in Nature, the missing data for this phenomenon ... read more

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