Global Sea Conditions as of date posted

Click on desired feature: region, wave height/direction, sea surface temperature...
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/


Compare today's sea surface temperatures to SST during the last glacial maximum 18,000 years ago in the ice age:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CLIMAP.jpg



Average sea surface salinities

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth540/content/c3_p4.html




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Antarctic glacier melt: today fastest since 14ka, per 100m sediment deposit
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/nocs-pco110609.php

The Falklands islands wolf: a social isolate for 6.7 million years, related closest to North American Maned wolf which 4ma later expanded to South America.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/darwins-wolf/

Google eyes see Amazon rainforest destruction
http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2009/11/google_had_never_done_anything.php

Nazca desertification due to empire growth (same everywhere).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/6478168/Nazcas-destruction-of-forests-caused-downfall.html

MtDNA molecular clock proven unreliable in antarctic penguins
http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem_print.aspx?name=68078801

Speech genes? tospeak, Foxp2 and basal vocalization/tissue patterns
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48680/title/A_gene_critical_for_speech
http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/11/revisiting_foxp2_and_the_origins_of_language.php?utm_source=networkbanner&utm_medium=link