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Utrecht University: New geological method reconstructs precise summer and winter temperatures during greenhouse climate

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An international research team led by Niels de Winter of Utrecht University has used a new method to reconstruct the monthly temperature differences during the Cretaceous period (78 million years ago). This era, the time of the dinosaurs, was characterised by high CO2 concentrations. ‘By knowing how large the differences between summer and winter were […]