2009Sept14: Rock samples in Africa reveal a strong link between falling CO2 levels and the formation of Antarctic ice sheets 34 million years ago, according to researchers at Cardiff, Bristol and Texas A&M Universities (The Independent, 2009).
Reference: The Independent. 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-find-co2-link-to-antarctic-ice-cap-origin-1787154.html
Image Description: Mt Herschel from Cape Hallet with Seabee Hook penguin colony in Foreground. Antarctica. Photo taken by Andrew Mandemaker, 2006Jan20. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Herschel,_Antarctica,_Jan_2006.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.
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