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Article: Reconstruction of past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate.
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- November 6, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-6 November 2009-National Oceanography Centre: Reconstruction of past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS
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The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which appears to show that the current warming and widespread loss of glacial ice are unprecedented.
"At no time during the last 14 thousand years was there a period of climate warming and loss of ice as large and regionally synchronous as that we ...