Sentences with phrase «about the ice age from»

In our homeschool curriculum we learned about The Ice Age from a Biblical stand point.

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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.

The findings suggest that humans were present on the west coast of British Columbia about 13,000 years ago, as it emerged from the most recent ice age.

That's consistent with the fossil record, which shows glyptodonts evolved from medium - sized forms (about 80 kilograms) to become true megafauna in the Pleistocene (reaching 2,000 kilograms) before their disappearance at the end of the last ice age.

Heavier rainfall at the study sites from the year 0 to 400, and again during Europe's Medieval Warm Period, just before the Little Ice Age from about the year 800 to 1300, was probably caused by a centuries - long strengthening of El Niño.

«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.

We know from these measurements from the ice cores with Icille and her companions, from various ages of ice, that before 1850 the CO2 in the atmosphere was very steady for about 10,000 years going back in time.

«The rise at the end of the Ice Age and today is about the same [a rise of 100 ppm] and we're going to be well above and beyond,» most likely increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases by hundreds of parts per million from preindustrial levels, Shakun notes.

About 10,000 years ago, after the glaciers of the Ice Age retreated from the Scandinavian landmass, bands of hunters and fishers moved across the Baltic Sea and into the Finnish wilderness.

Gard found similar fossils deeper down in the sediment cores, indicating that the Arctic ice partially cleared at various times from about 128 000 to 71 000 years ago — a period covering the latest interglacial and the early part of the latest ice age.

So I think the Neandertals are beginning certainly by about 400,000 years ago, then they gradually evolve to the final Neandertals, the ones we know best from Europe in the last ice age.

Unvegetated terminal moraine from Nahanni National Park, NWT, Canada dating to the end of the last ice age (about 13,800 years ago).

Evidence for an ice age about 650 million years ago has long puzzled geologists because the ice appeared to have reached from the poles almost to the equator.

This Ice Age migration over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska is distinct from the arrival of the Inuit and Eskimo, who were latecomers, spreading throughout the Artic beginning about 5,500 years ago.

By recreating hunting tools from the Ice Age, researchers believe they can learn a lot about how early hunters adapted to technology.

But we have used ice cores from several different parts of Svalbard, and can be fairly confident about our findings on climate fluctuations in Svalbard and North Norway as far back as the Viking Age,» says Elisabeth Isaksson.

Moreover, random interactions within the sun's magnetic field can flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other, matching the paleo - temperature record for ice ages on Earth for over the past 5.3 million years, when ice ages occurred occurred roughly every 41,000 years until about a million years ago when they switched to a roughly 100,000 - year cycle.

From the makers of the hit «Ice Age» series comes «Rio,» a comedy adventure about taking a walk on the wild side.

This fragment of rib bone is the only known piece of small, portable Ice Age art showing an animal from Britain and tells us about the movement of people, the animals they hunted and how these people saw the world.

1932 Tatra Type 57 — Zoe Harrison tells the intriguing story of the car that came here from Austria in the 1970s / 1911 Albion 16hp — The tale of this Scottish expatriate now enjoying an active life in Australia is told by Dennis Harrison / Ice and Snow Rally 1991 — Malcolm Elder explains what it is like to take part in the Rallye Neige et Glace in the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to rot.

For example, the global temperature change when we recovered from the last ice age averaged only about 0.1 C per century (and descent into an ice age tended to be even slower)... whereas we are now looking at changes greater than that happening in one decade.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, (when the Thames froze) from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C. For the last 6 decades, to 2009, we are looking for the impact (or non-impact) of exponentially increasing CO2.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C. For the last 6 decades, to 2009, we are looking for the impact (or non-impact) of exponentially increasing CO2.

1974 Serious droughts since 1972 increase concern about climate; cooling from aerosols is suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists talk of a new ice age.

That warming is about 1/5 of the total warming of the globe from the depths of the last Major Ice Age (about 20,000 years ago) to present.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, (when the Thames and the sea froze) from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C.

In a few years from now when it finally dawns on people that we have been taken for the umpteenth scare ride (Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, Acid rain, Ozone layer, DDT and many more) the Media will look to themselves and wonder, «how the hell could we be this stupid» Time Magazine and Newsweek know all about that after reporting on the «next Ice Age» scare of the 1970s.

He's talking about the supposed ~ 60 year natural cycle over a benign recovery from the little ice age, as slightly influenced by mankind's emissions.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Below you'll hear from scientists with significant concerns about keystone sections of the paper — on the evidence for «superstorms» in the last warm interval between ice ages, the Eemian, and on the pace at which seas could rise and the imminence of any substantial uptick in the rate of coastal inundation.

How the above pieces address Judge's questions I get the feeling that the Judge has some misconceptions about things from the way some of the questions are phrased, particularly the question about atmospheric CO2 having reflective properties, and the «little ice age» being lumped together with other ice ages.

I am not talking about major P - T transitions or ice ages from solar cycles, explain to me finely interbedded sand - shale sequences.

[Response: To pre-empt some mutual incomprehension, note that industrial CO2 rises are certainly an anthropgenic forcing and not a response (see here and here), but clearly CO2 changes over glacial - interglacial cycles is both a response (to Milankovitch - driven changes) and a forcing (since the additional radiative forcing from CO2 is about a third of that needed to keep the ice ages as cold as they are — see here).

Using a variety of methods, the authors conclude that the onset of a new ice age would likely begin about 1,500 years from now, if the concentration of carbon dioxide was back below the levels produced since the Industrial Revolution.

Unconvinced of the human contribution to warming, the alternative that Zycher suggests is that the warming we have observed may be a symptom of our emergence from a little ice age (starting in about 1800).

Marcott's data indicates that it took 4,000 years for the world to warm about 1.25 degrees from the end of the ice age to about 7,000 years ago.

The combined effects of oceans and vegetation are known from ice cores: dCO2 / dT is about 8 ppmv / °C, pretty constant over 4 ice age — interglacial cycles in 420,000 years and surprisingly linear, despite that a number of players in this game are acting far from linear.

There is still some discussion about how exactly this starts and ends ice ages, but many studies suggest that the amount of summer sunshine on northern continents is crucial: if it drops below a critical value, snow from the past winter does not melt away in summer and an ice sheet starts to grow as more and more snow accumulates.

We are also in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a four - hundred - year cold spell known as the «Little Ice Age.»

If there was any truth to the claim that CO2 is heating the Earth, one would have to ignore all of its previous ice ages that were followed by natural warming periods, including the most recent mini-ice age from about 1300 to 1850.

The global surface temperature increase since about 1860 corresponds to a recovery from the Little Ice Age, modulated by natural ocean and atmosphere cycles, without need for additional forcing by greenhouse gases.

There's probably cave art from the ice age where Ayla complained about the witch doctor on the public dole and he should get off his lazy ass and go on mammoth hunts like the other men.

(6) Ice core data provide evidence of a quasi millennial oscillation with alternating warm and cool periods: ● Minoan Warm Period about 3 k - years ago ● Roman Warm Period about 2 k - years ago ● Dark (cool) Age about 1.5 k - year ago ● Medieval Warm Period from about early 10th to late 14th century ● Little Ice Age from about late 14th to mid 19th century.

By the 1970s, the persistent cooling trend had become a hot topic, so to speak, for magazines and books that fretted about a coming Ice Age, and the federal government supported studies that calculated the economic disasters expected from a colder climate.

It shows a dotted line indicating the long steady upward climb in temperatures from the last ice age, from 20,000 years ago to about 11,000 years ago, when it notes that «temperatures reach modern levels.»

-- August 16, 2008 — Excerpt: An expert from the National Autonomous University of Mexico predicted that in about ten years the Earth will enter a «little ice age» which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.

This week there are a spate of news stories about a little ice age coming — even from the uber warmista Potsdam Institute.

Information about rates of SLR is most easily obtained from deglaciations, when ice ages terminated and sea level rose by up to 120 — 130 m at mean rates of about 1 m / cy [10 mm / yr] but with rapid steps bracketed by slower episodes.

1) There was little accountability about the change of scaremongering from the looming ice age.