Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere

Chipmunk100 writes Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere. Researchers have found that circulation of the ocean plays an equally important role in regulating the earth's climate. The study results were published the journal Science (abstract. "Our study suggests that changes in the storage of heat in the deep ocean could be as important to climate change as other hypotheses – tectonic activity or a drop in the carbon dioxide level – and likely led to one of the major climate transitions of the past 30 million years," said one of the authors."

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Re: "caused by Ocean"

[AK Marc]

The facts that the Republicans used to be the liberal party, and the Democratic Party, the conservative ones. But in the past 150 years or so, the parties swapped, they might as well have renamed themselves a few times in there. In the first 100 years of the USA, the parties changed names more often, but didn't after.

Doesn't help that the mainstream politicians are always left of the southern standard. David Duke was a "local" Democrat, but when going national, he changed parties to the one that's more conservative. A Southern Democrat is right of a northern Republican. So dividing on party lines for such things is useless.