When were sea levels highest?
Sea levels were extraordinarily high during the last period of the dinosaur age. But ocean levels may have been even higher before that.
Source: livescience.com
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Skeptical Science New Research for Week #6 2024
Open access notables 300 years of sclerosponge thermometry shows global warming has exceeded 1.5 °C, McCulloch et al., Nature Climate Change:
Source: skepticalscience.com
Antarctic octopus sounds a warning over sea-level rise
Antarctic octopus sounds a warning over sea-level rise
Source: nzgeo.com
Octopus DNA helps to discover evolution of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse
Scientists, including from British Antarctic Survey, have used octopus DNA to discover that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) likely collapsed during the Last Interglacial period around 120,000 years ago – when the global temperatures were similar to today.
Source: mercopress.com
On thin ice | Borneo Bulletin Online
AFP – Scientists investigating how Antarctica’s ice sheets retreated in the deep past have turned to an innovative approach: studying the genes of octopuses that live in its chilly waters. A new analysis published in Science finds that geographically-isolated populations of the eight-limbed sea creatures mated freely around 125,000 years ago, signaling an ice-free corridor […]
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