Sentences with phrase «conditions of the glacial period»

I can't imagine humans wanting to enter conditions of the glacial period - unless skiing becomes very popular.

Not exact matches

Instead, the fossil record indicates they vanished during the Earth's glacial - interglacial transition, which occurred about 12,000 years ago and led to much warmer conditions and the start of the current Holocene period.

During the last part of the Pleistocene there were actually five major periods of glaciation with four periods of warmer non glacial conditions between them.

If C02 is the largest single contributing factor to the Greenhouse Effect (because supposedly water vapor is only involved as a feedback to primary chemistry involving C02 itself), and C02 lags temperature increases (as has been stated on this very blog), how has the Earth ever returned to colder glacial conditions following periods of warming?

Carbon starvation, which apparently sometimes occurs during glacial periods due to the low levels of CO2 that are reached, has the same effect on C3 plants * trees, shrubs, and such) as do warm, dry conditions when the warm is excesaive.

each period of warming during the descent to the next glacial stage should be more intense than the previous ones, as climatic variability increases outside the warm conditions of an interglacial climatic optimum.