Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age

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Caption: The North Greenland Ice Core Project camp. Credit: NGRIP
Caption: The North Greenland Ice Core Project camp. Credit: NGRIP

Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say
Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.


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