Sentences with phrase «happens during an interglacial»
That might well be called nature's global warming because what happens during an interglacial period is the Earth warms up, the glaciers melt and life flourishes.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
The fact that ice sheets will respond to warming is not in doubt (note the 4 - 6 m sea level rise during the last interglacial), but the speed at which that might happen is highly uncertain, though the other story this week shows it is ongoing.
--- What is of concern is what happens when the waters warm at even greater depths, waters not warmed enough to release during prior interglacials, where there are (presumably) vast quantities of methyl clathrates.
We have glimpsed just two, one after the MPT (MIS - 11) and perhaps another pre-MPT, so we sort of know what has happened during extended interglacials.
Because the observed and predicted rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and global warming is faster than seems to have happened during the Last Interglacial may mean that we are heading into uncertain territory.
The program also mentioned another fact that is almost always ignored by global warming catastrophists: during the last interglacial 125,000 years ago, called the Eemian, the Arctic also melted pretty much completely, as may be happening now.
The fact that ice sheets will respond to warming is not in doubt (note the 4 - 6 m sea level rise during the last interglacial), but the speed at which that might happen is highly uncertain, though the other story this week shows it is ongoing.