Sentences with phrase «abrupt end of the last»

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.

3) I fail to understand how the rather well - documented abrupt end of the last glacial cycle fits in his orbital / CO2 / albedo theory.

Not exact matches

One of the important truths which this very useful book underlines is the simple fact that as neither the Church nor the doctrine of the Church came to an abrupt end with the death of the last apostle and the conclusion of the New Testament, Greek itself well outlived the apostolic period and continued to enrich the Church through history, philosophy, theology, hymns and sermons for a long time after 100AD.

Last week's publication of secretly - recorded footage brought his reign to an abrupt and ignominious end, with interim replacement Southgate starting his reign with a simple 2 - 0 win against Malta.

Everton's scintillating run of form came to an abrupt end when crashing to defeat at White Hart Lane last weekend.

The Hammers» six - year spell in the Barclay's Premier League came to an abrupt end last Sunday as Wigan Athletic came back from the death to seal a quite stunning 3 - 2 victory to spark scenes of sheer jubilation in Greater Manchester, as the Wigan supporters rushed onto the pitch to congratulate the players who had pulled off a miraculous recovery — coming from 2 - 0 down at half - time to snatch all three points right at the death courtesy of Charles N'Zogbia's stoppage time winner.

That probably came to an abrupt end this morning when the New York Post reported that Deputy Mayor Stephen Goldsmith suddenly resigned last month not because he saw tempting opportunities in the private sector and not because of his botched handling of the last big storm — you remember, the blizzard — but because he spent two nights in a Washington, D.C. jail arising from a domestic violence complaint.

More recently — after an abrupt request for more MTA capital funding at the end of the city's budget process, Mr. Cuomo asked the city to increase its share of payment for the state - run authority again last week — from a planned $ 657 million over five years to $ 3 billion over five years.

Sir Michael Fallon's career as Defence Secretary came to an abrupt end last Wednesday, after he admitted his behaviour towards women had fallen short of standards.

Besides an abrupt ending that suggests chunks of the game were removed at the last second, the game pads its length by demanding players scour the world for extra items in order to unlock the final dungeon.

There's a lovely set of fossil tree rings from Chile, a 1229 - year - long period from sometime about 50,000 years ago, which also shows droughts lasting a century, with abrupt onsets and ends.

Few people have read paleo - climatology text books, are aware of the glacial / interglacial cycle, are aware that the paleoclimatic record has unequivocal evidence of cyclic gradual changes and cyclic abrupt climate events, are aware that the abrupt climate change events such as the abrupt termination of the last 22 interglacial periods lacks an explanation, are aware that all of the past interglacial periods are short (roughly 12,000 years) and that they have ended abruptly, and so on.

The several - year figure is apropos of the suddenness with which the last ice age ended about 15,000 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere, e.g., «the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years.»

Evidently the hundred - thousand - year glacial cycles did follow a sawtooth pattern: each cycle showed a slow descent into a long - lasting cold state that ended with a mysteriously abrupt rise of temperature.