Sentences with phrase «major ice sheet growth»
The study, co-authored by Dr Thomas Stevens, from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, found a previously unknown mechanism by which the joining of North and South America changed the salinity of the Pacific Ocean and caused major ice sheet growth across the Northern Hemisphere.
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The growth and decay of continental ice sheets represents a slow feedback operating over millennia; if one is concerned with the more rapid response of the climate to CO2, ice sheets have to be accounted for as a major forcing.