«The amazing increase in Chinese manufacturing over the past 15 years has driven the world economy to new heights and supplied consumers in developed countries with tremendous quantities of lower - cost goods,» said co-author Steven J. Davis, an assistant professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine. (sciencedaily.com)
Geochemist Richard Court of Imperial College London published a report (covered in 80beats) showing that impacting rocks would have shed tremendous quantities of carbon dioxide and water vapor, both of which effectively trap heat. (discovermagazine.com)
Since the circulating waters carry tremendous quantities of heat northward from the tropics, if the circulation ground to a halt, temperatures in many regions of the Northern Hemisphere would immediately plunge. (history.aip.org)