Ancient Pool Of Warm Water Questions Current Climate Models!
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Present in the Pliocene era, this giant mass of water would have dramatically altered rainfall in the tropics, possibly even removing the monsoon. Its decay and the consequential drying of East Africa may have been a factor in Hominid evolution. When analysing all the available sea surface temperature records spanning the past 5 million years, the international team – with academics from UCL and Yale – found that none of the currently proposed mechanisms can account for such conditions in the Pliocene, when tested using a climate model. The Pliocene was the last time the world was in a steady climate that was much warmer than today, and with a carbon dioxide level higher than the conditions that existed before the Industrial Revolution. (Nature)
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