Why did Earth experience drastic climate swings without ice sheets? (VIDEO)

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A new study from China University explores how millennial-scale climate variability, traditionally linked to ice-sheet dynamics, occurred during warm greenhouse house periods when ice sheets were absent.

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Professor Chengshan Wang, from the China University of Geosciences, China

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