Where and when water is available places a pivotal control on environments – with ancient sediments and fossils explaining how rainfall has changed through time, although researchers now believe climate scientists have read some historical signs about rainfall levels incorrectly.
Where and when water is available places a pivotal control on environments – with ancient sediments and fossils explaining how rainfall has changed through time, although researchers now believe climate scientists have read some historical signs about rainfall levels incorrectly.
“Sediment and fossil records are a main pillar for our understanding of how the climate works – but climate scientists have got something wrong about Australia’s ice age,” says Dr Alex F. Wall, lead author of a new research paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
“Experts tend to think of the last ice age as having less complex rainfall patterns than today. Our new research suggests that narrative may have arisen from what the past can’t tell us, rather than what it can.”
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