Researchers Confirm Role of Massive Flood in Climate Change

The Earth Institute at Columbia University ^ | January 10, 2006 | Ken Kostel and Clare Oh

[mlc9852]

At the end of the last Ice Age and the beginning of the current warming period, two ancient lakes catastrophically emptied into the North Atlantic. Scientists believe the flood of freshwater interfered with the ocean's overturning circulation, which distributes heat around the globe, and caused some parts of the world to suddenly cool.

Now climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), part of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by this massive freshwater pulse that happened 8,000 years ago.

Their work is the first to consistently model the event using a state-of-the-art climate model and the first time that the results have been validated by comparison to the record of climate proxies that scientists use to study the Earth's past.

[mlc9852]

Interesting.

[xcamel]

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[sageb1]

"two ancient lakes catastrophically emptied into the North Atlantic"

catastrophe: a sudden and widespread disaster. Who was it a disaster for? Did someone register a complaint or file suit? :)

[cfrels]

Read "
State of Fear", by Michael Crighton

[mlc9852]

Thanks. I hadn't seen it.

[fso301]

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