Tag: Warm

Many of us grew up sprinkling cinnamon sugar on toast or oatmeal. As a child, I was fascinated to learn ground cinnamon was actually the bark of a tree. I think I nibbled on several other kinds of bark, just as an experiment, before deciding most trees didn't taste good, no matter what the beavers might think. The cinnamon most of us know in the U.S. is actually Cinnamomum cassia, rather than "true" Ceylon cinnamon, Cinnamomum zeylanicum.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2009) A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis of ice core records suggests that Antarctic temperatures may have been up to 6°C warmer than the present day.

The findings, recently reported by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the Open University and University of Bristol in the journal Nature could help us understand more about rapid Antarctic climate changes.