Category Archives: Ice Ages

Marcott Study

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Clive Best

There has been much media interest in a recent paper by Marcott et. al “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years” published in Science. It seemingly shows that following a slow cooling over the last … Continue reading →

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Ice Ages revisited

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Clive Best

In 2006 Gerard Roe published a paper “In defense of Milankovitz” [1] which showed a good qualitative agreement between the rate of change in ice volume with Arctic summer melting as measured by maximum insolation at 65N. The ice volume … Continue reading →

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The amazing Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Clive Best

A striking feature of the assymetric alignments of continents  is not just the  1/3 more ocean surface in the Southern hemisphere but that its largest continent Antarctica is situated directly over the south pole. The world’s oceans all converge into … Continue reading →

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