Third IPCC report states baldly that global warming, unprecedented since end of last ice age, is «very likely,» with possible severe surprises. (livescience.com)
Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization. (pearltrees.com)
This adds evidence for the controversial theory that seafaring people used a coastal route to move from Asia to North America at the very end of the last ice age, which ended 11,700 years ago. (science.howstuffworks.com)