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Prehistoric Super Greenhouse

As global temperatures rise, glaciers melt and sea levels go up ... correct ? Well, new research on prehistoric climates indicates that the opposite was true. When scientists found odd clues pointing to glacier growth some 90 million years ago, Climatologists were left scratching their heads. Given the Earth's sauna-like conditions at that time (Turonian Period), how could ice sheets possibly be expanding? http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=28971 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/europe/11glacier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin