Sentences with phrase «[little ice age»

Two new studies show the current is slowly weakening, so it's not threatening an instant ice age, but rather colder weather in Europe, higher sea levels on the U.S. east coast, and depleted fisheries.

«While the specific cover is fake, it is true there was a period in the»70s when people were predicting an ice age,» the official said.

And if Gomez, whose multiyear legal battle is likely to reach a head later this month with a verdict expected on May 24, does land behind bars, the chilling effect on researchers will be of Ice Age proportions.

One popular theory is that the first native North Americans ventured from Asia over an ice - free, Alaskan land bridge to what is now western and central Canada during the Ice Age.

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

The nation claims that its ancestors fled for survival to a coastal area in Canada that never froze during the Ice Age.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

Last week, paleontologist identified the skeleton of an ancient horse that was from an ice age nearly 16000 years ago.

Global temperatures are the hottest since the last ice age and the planet is only getting warmer.

The crisis engulfing the global steel industry is so severe that one of China's top producers has warned a new Ice Age has set in as mills confront overcapacity and Continue Reading

Many species in Yasuní survived the last ice age.

In one sense, the Fed created an ice age for US interest rates by lowering the Fed Funds rate essentially to zero and by printing money to buy US Treasury and mortgage backed securities, putting further downward pressure on longer term interest rates.

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

The ice age will come.

we can estimate the age of these drawings by the people that once lived there during the last ice age which was 30,000 years ago.

Documented famines with millions of deaths occurred during the little ice age because the cold weather killed the crops.

There was no explanation of why both the medieval warm period and the little ice age, very clearly shown in the 1990 report, had simply disappeared eleven years later.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

To the surprise of everyone who knew about the strong evidence for the little ice age and the medieval climate optimum, the graph showed a nearly constant temperature from the year 1000 until about 150 years ago, when the temperature began to rise abruptly like the blade of a hockey stick.

This warm period was followed by the «little ice age» when the Thames would frequently freeze over during the winter.

Because he might hurt someone, and, to quote Manfred the mammoth from the movie Ice Age, part of what you do in a herd is look out for each other.

There is no evidence for significant increase of CO2 in the medieval warm period, nor for a significant decrease at the time of the subsequent little ice age.

[I John 1:8] When I try to say how I see the world, I can't get away from an image that forces itself on me and won't let go: the Ice Age — this slow advance of...

What set this in motion is uncertain, but we think it has something to do with major climatic shifts that were happening around that time — a sudden cooling in the Earth's climate driven by the onset of one of the worst parts of the last Ice Age.

Published on Jan 15, 2013 Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

Science says that there was an ice age about ten thousand years ago and started melting at about that time.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

Their latest theories suggest that aboriginals made it to Australia at least 60,000 years ago, during the penultimate Ice Age and that their languages diversified as they spread throughout the continent.

Sea level has been rising slowly and inexorably since the end of the last ice age, and the rate has not accelerated in a warming climate.

during the last ice age brown bears migrated following food north.

Some say the polar ice caps are melting while others, who note that this it the coldest year in a century, are predicting a new ice age.

Colin... Your statement of «when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels» is speculation of a possibility, not a scientifically accepted specific hypothesis.

One is changed environmental conditions for a discrete subpopulation of the original population, such as when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels, cutting species into subgroups.

That could mean an asteroid, disease, or an ice age.

some one stop me I'm falling back to the ice age and cave drawing oh no heresy i can see Mitochondrial Eve now and what she worshiping a carving of Nature under an elder tree 200,000 years ago in Eden

Were the ice ages also a warning from god?

I suspect that it will stay there until the temperature starts to decline again, at which point, as in the 1970s, we'll hear more about the inevitable return of an ice age.

By this interpretation, it seems to me, nothing is more wrong than to treat the Human as though it has been biologically stationary since the ending of the Ice Age.

Program Description Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

The Earth goes through cycles and cooling (i.e Ice Age) and warming are natural cycles.

And we have it on pretty good authority that the same sort of glacial melting occurred with the last ice age.

The Ice Age Floods have also been considered as an analog to understand geologic processes on Mars, where landforms strikingly similar to those in Eastern Washington exist.

Dinosaurs, The Ice Age, aren't mentioned in The Bible because God didn't care about them.

ice ages followed by hot periods.

Recent research has found evidence that comparable floods occurred much earlier in the Ice Age in the Columbia Basin, as much as 1 to 2 million years ago.

The real purpose of myth (e.g. the creation stories) is not to give an account of what actually happened in the past, or what may happen in the future (e.g. another ice age), but to convey a particular understanding of human life.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

There is no reliable evidence of modern humans elsewhere in the Old World until 60,000 - 40,000 years ago, during a short temperate period in the midst of the last ice age.

Great flood: the filly of a large basin by raising oceans during the warming period after the last ice age.

Then God created the ice age to destroy creation.