A new study, published in Nature Geoscience, found there were abrupt changes in Wisconsin’s climate that have a “credible link” to a major warming episode in Greenland between 48,000 and 68,000 years ago.
As the climate is projected to get warmer, scientists can look back at these major warming events for clues about what to expect in the future, said Cameron Batchelor, lead author on the study and now a post-doctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The study was a part of her doctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.