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Northern push for the bipolar see-saw

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Antarctic ice-core data show that abrupt changes of climate in the Northern Hemisphere in the last glacial period preceded associated shifts in Antarctica by about 200 years — indicating an oceanic coupling process. See Letter p.661

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Figure 1: Paired warming events in Antarctica and Greenland.

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  1. Tas van Ommen is in the Australian Antarctic Division at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7050, Australia.,

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