Sentences with phrase «cold peak of the last ice age»
The research drew lessons from paleoclimate studies of the Last Glacial Maximum, the cold peak of the last ice age, that relate to the extent of warmth possible in an era of accumulating greenhouse gases:
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
[Response: The global temperature change at the peak of the last ice age (about 20,000 years ago) were about 5 to 7 deg C colder than the present.
Anyway, today we try to explain the exact opposite: how northern hemisphere ice ages can quite suddenly weaken — at least in case of the last one, which had its cold peak around 18,000 years ago, after which atmospheric CO2 levels «suddenly» (over a millennium or so) rose by 30 per cent, and temperatures started to climb closer * to our current Holocene values.
But when 1 and 2 synch up, they produce a double whammy: during the peak of the last ice age, Earth was 20 % colder!