Sentences with phrase «during the glacial period large»

In addition, during the glacial period large sections of tropical rain forest changes to savannah (About a third of the tropical forest changes to savannah.

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During the Earth's ice ages the Pacific Ocean stored large amounts of carbon, which for some reason it released again close to the last glacial period's end, warming the world and melting most of the icecaps.

One such as Rajendra Pachauri's attack on an Indian scientist for pointing out for four years that the IPCC's claim on Himalayan glaciers was incorrect during the period that the consulting firm he led, TERI, was negotiating for a large contract to study the glacial melting of Himalayan glaciers.

The ubiquitous character of certain events further confirms their importance: «the Younger Dryas and a large number of abrupt changes during the last ice age called Dansgaard / Oeschger events (23 abrupt changes into a climate of near - modern warmth and out again, during the last glacial period) have been corroborated in multiple ice cores from Greenland, Antarctica and tropical mountains, marine sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean, the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and from various records on land.

If there was actually glaciation during cold periods, glacial dust might well have blown out to sea, fertilizing large areas and producing a stronger CO2 pump.

If the large buildup seen in 1971 were repeated for only another seven years, the snow and ice would reflect as much sunlight as during a glacial period.

During the glacial period oscillations are very large and are of a warming nature (Dansgaard - Oeschger events).