Sentences with phrase «during the last ice age when»

It was formed as a limestone cave system during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower.

The limestone walls of the hole were formed during the last Ice Age when water levels in the area were much lower.

As during the last ice age when sea levels were around 100 m lower icebergs were grounding at 44s, these would have calved from similar size as during the 2001 event (160kmx30km) hardly evidence of change.

Not exact matches

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

While the overlap during deglaciations is large (which makes it near impossible to make any estimates of relative forcings), during the start of the last ice age, there was no overlap: CO2 started to decrease (some 40 - 50 ppmv) when the temperature was already near it's minimum.

In a study released this fall, Petrenko analyzed methane from 12,000 years ago during the last deglaciation, when Earth was transitioning out of the last ice age.

He completely dismisses all other explanations for the ice - age - periods during the last half billion years than the passing of our solar system through areas with higher production of cosmic rays when it rotates around the center of our galaxy.

While the overlap during deglaciations is large (which makes it near impossible to make any estimates of relative forcings), during the start of the last ice age, there was no overlap: CO2 started to decrease (some 40 - 50 ppmv) when the temperature was already near it's minimum.

But the world was only about 4 °C to 7 °C cooler, on average, during the last ice age, when large parts of Europe and the United States were covered by glaciers.

The Last Glacial Maximum is a period when ice sheets during the last northern hemisphere ice age were at their highest extLast Glacial Maximum is a period when ice sheets during the last northern hemisphere ice age were at their highest extlast northern hemisphere ice age were at their highest extent.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

Modern Homo sapiens had probably been in Africa during the last warm period in the ice ages, which started 130,000 years ago (this is when you see the first use of fireplaces as a centrally - located feature of encampments, suggesting some change in social organization).

It has been warmer than the present for much of the ten thousand years since the last big ice age: it was a little warmer for a few centuries in the medieval warm period around 1100 (when Greenland was settled for grazing) and also during the Roman - Climate Optimum at the time of the Roman Empire (when grapes grew in Scotland), and at least 1 °C warmer for much of the Holocene Climate Optimum (four to eight thousand years ago).

Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist.

But when 1 and 2 synch up, they produce a double whammy: during the peak of the last ice age, Earth was 20 % colder!

When the last ice age ended, the oceans were very close to 120 m (nearly 400 feet) LOWER than today (NASA's own website) As for runaway GHG induced heat, at the hight of our present right now, sea levels are STILL 4 - 6 meters LOWER than they wrre during the previous interglacial.

And, another way to look at temperature changes is this: During the last ice age, when there was like a mile of ice on top of where I currently am, the global temperature was only about 5 - 7 C colder than it is today.

I saw or heard or read somewhere (possibly in «An Inconvenient Truth») that LIA may have been caused when a surge of fresh water was released from North America during the retreat of the last ice age.

Argues that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist