Foretelling a major meltdown: Rare mineral might portend return to hothouse climate of old

Monday, December 1, 2008 - 17:14 in Earth & Climate

By discovering the meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to track ancient climates, Binghamton University geologist Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and others better understand what we're probably in for over the next century or two as global warming begins to crank up the heat — and, ultimately, to change life as we know it.

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