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News Release 13-037
Earth Is Warmer Today Than During 70 to 80 Percent of the Past 11,300 Years
Reconstruction of Earth history shows significance of temperature rise
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Scientists look at an ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide coring site.
Credit: Thomas Bauska, OSU
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A West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core barrel is shown. Cores show past air temperatures.
Credit: Thomas Bauska, OSU
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An ice core taken from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide is shown in its sampling barrel.
Credit: Thomas Bauska, OSU
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Deploying a core barrel from a research vessel; it will bring back sea-floor sediment.
Credit: Nick Pisias, OSU
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Sediment cores from the deep ocean tell scientists about past sea surface temperatures.
Credit: Nick Pisias, OSU
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The researchers' results are described in the March 8 issue of the journal Science.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2013
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