ScienceDaily: Theories about the rates of ice accumulation and melting during the Quaternary Period — the time interval ranging from 2.6 million years ago to the present — may need to be revised, thanks to research findings published by a University of Iowa researcher and his colleagues in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Science. Jeffrey Dorale, assistant professor of geoscience in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, writes that global sea level and Earth’s climate are closely linked. …