Glacier melt in NZ may have ended southern ice age - Climate Change - NZ Herald News

...Glaciers New Zealand and Patagonia started melting before the rise in carbon dioxide levels, but the shifting southern hemisphere westerlies could explain that rapid warming.

New Zealand researchers last year worked with a team from Columbia University to calculate in detail the retreat and advance of glaciers in New Zealand over the past 11,500 years.

They found no apparent correlation with what happened at the same time in the northern hemisphere, and said the south had its own climate drivers, which could have important implications in the context of global warming.

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A globally endangered butterfly is making a comeback in Britain thanks to climate change.