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April 16, 2014

Growth of Antarctic ice sheet triggered warming in the Southern Ocean during Miocene
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2014
Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have deciphered a supposed climate paradox from the Miocene era by means of complex model simulations. When the Antarctic ice sheet grew to its present-day size around 14 million years ago, it did not get colder everywhere on the Earth, but there were regions that became warmer. A physical contradiction? No, as AWI experts now found out, the expansion of the ice sheet on the Antarctic continent trigge ... read more

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