Some tropical land regions may warm more dramatically than previously predicted, as climate change progresses, according to a new CU Boulder study that looks millions of years into Earth’s past.
Some tropical land regions may warm more dramatically than previously predicted, as climate change progresses, according to a new CU Boulder study that looks millions of years into Earth’s past.
Using lake sediments from the Colombian Andes, researchers revealed that when the planet warmed millions of years ago under carbon dioxide levels similar to today’s, tropical land heated up nearly twice as much as the ocean.
The study was published February 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Lina Pérez-Angel (left) and her colleagues are looking at the Funza-II core extracted from Columbia. (Photo Credit: Maria Fernanda Almanza)
