Over the weekend, Saudi King Salman issued a whole
raft of Royal decrees implementing
huge changes in the make - up
of the country's most important officials.
We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history
of Heinrich events (
huge discharges
of ice -
rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift
of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts
of Asia, and other
changes), and also cold phases
of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions
of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.