Various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the cause of Heinrich events.
During Heinrich events, huge volumes of fresh water flow into the ocean.
The global extent of these records illustrates the dramatic impact of Heinrich events.
The Heinrich events have turned out to occur in step with other ice age cycles.
They found that glaciers there seemed to have advanced and retreated in synchrony with the Heinrich events.
The pine forests tended to be abundant during the five most recent Heinrich events.
Note, the paper doesn't say we're in the midst of a Heinrich event, nor does it directly apply to global warming.
In 1988 he described the suddenly occurring climate changes in the history of the earth, which have since been named after him, Heinrich events.
Six known Heinrich events took place in the late Pleistocene (120,000-10,000 years ago).
It may be a kind of Heinrich event, in which icebergs float south.