Rising CO2 levels linked to global warming during last deglaciation

Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 15:31 in Earth & Climate

Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishing a clear cause-and-effect relationship between CO2 and global warming from the geologic record has remained difficult. A new study identifies this relationship and provides compelling evidence that rising CO2 caused much of the global warming.

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