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1,800 years of global ocean cooling halted by global warming


August 17, 2015

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Prior to the advent of human-caused global warming in the 19th century, the surface layer of Earth's oceans had undergone 1,800 years of a steady cooling trend, according to a new study in the Aug. 17, 2015, issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The results also indicate that the coolest temperatures occurred during the Little Ice Age--a period that spanned the 16th through 18th centuries and was known for cooler average temperatures over land.Full Story

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