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Nature 439, 660 (9 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439660a; Published online 8 February 2006
Climate may not be linked with circulation slowdown
Eric Steig1
- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Box 351310, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Your News Feature "A sea change" (Nature 439, 256–260; 2006) states that evidence for the huge effects on climate of past thermohaline shutdowns is "near indisputable". You then claim that the best such evidence is the coincidence of thermohaline slowdown with the flooding of the North Atlantic following the collapse of Lake Agassiz, about 12,000 years ago at the beginning of the Younger Dryas cold period.
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