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Plant Fossils Found on a Cold War Expedition Contain an Ominous Climate Message – Gizmodo Australia
Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise….
Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise. A study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists says that plant fossils found in a sample of dirt collected from a mile beneath the ice in the mid-1960s suggest that the worlds pre-human climate was at one point warm enough to completely melt the Greenland ice sheet.
The dirt researchers inspected is a…
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