Ancient Hawaiian glaciers reveal clues to global climate impacts

Author:

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Title:

Ancient Hawaiian glaciers reveal clues to global climate impacts

Year:

2010

Subject:

Glaciers Global warming Climate changes

Summary:

This paper describes how an ancient glacier, that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii, provided evidence of the power and reach of global change. It describes how research helped scientists such as Peter Clark, a professor of geosciences at Oregon State University, to determine when, where, and most likely why the glacier existed. This paper also describes how the research of Professor Clark and his colleagues relates to the slowdown of an Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a North Atlantic Ocean current system that has carried heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic, how this heat has keeps northern Europe habitable, and how this slowdown has basically caused climate changes all over the world.

URL:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100805111236.htm?sms_ss=email

Collection:

Monographs