Why? It isn’t as though there has been much by way of warming in the southern hemisphere. It is adjacent to the localized warming of the Antarctic Peninsula but why is just that patch warming while the Antarctic generally cools? Continue reading
Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there. Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago.
