2008Mar6: University of Sydney researchers create a map of the earth 80 million years ago when the climate was much warmer, the ice sheets had melted, and sea levels were 170m higher than today (BBC, 2008).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7282142.stm
Image Description: The effect on today’s continents of a 170m sea level rise, based on a model of what happened 80m years ago. Dark blue areas show land swamped by sea 80m years ago. Image Source: Science. Image Location: BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7278084.stm Image Permission: This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. However, it is believed that the use of this work to illustrate the subject in question, Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, on Interlinked Challenges, hosted on servers in the United States by Michigan State University, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.
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This post is tagged 2000s Climate Change Events, 21st Century and Climate Change, Australia and Climate Change, Australia and New Zealand-Climate Change, Climate Change Effects, Climate Change Research, Ice Sheets, Oceania and Climate Change, Rising Seas, Temperatures, Warming Temperatures
