Sentences with phrase «ice age as»

The study looked at arctic - wide changes in ice age as well as regional changes and noted that the fraction of total ice extent made up of multiyear ice in March decreased from 75 % in the mid 1980s to 45 % in 2011.

But many will undoubtedly question the latest message, because scientists now say that we may be headed to something that resembles a new mini ice age as the one that ruled the northern hemisphere until about 1900 with ice cold winters and sea ice on Storebelt, Øresund and even the the river Thames in London.

a BP, when Salix arctica, which is considered a warmth - loving plant, had a maximum,» that (3) «comparisons with Holocene records from East and North Greenland show similar immigration histories and similar trends, with the Little Ice Age as the coldest period during the Holocene, culminating about 150 years ago,» and that (4) «subsequent warming does not indicate environmental conditions comparable to the HTM yet at this stage.»

Four massive tropical volcano eruptions started the Little Ice Age as early as 1275AD and caused cooling that lasted 500 years, say scientists.

during the last ice age as evidence that 3.7 w / m2 for CO2 x 2 will produce 3C of warming.

You mention the little ice age as an end point, but do not discuss this that I can see.

A full definition of the likely extent of the Little Ice age as popularly understood is given under note 2.

curve of ice age as a function of depth..»

In particular the paleo proxy reconstructions represent the severe perturbations of the various periods of the Little Ice age as merely shallow downwards blips, whilst the astonishing recovery around 1690 featuring the largest hockey stick in the record is a corresponding shallow upwards blip

I presume that your work would in some sense improve the curve of ice age as a function of depth, as well as the conversion from sample concentration to atmospheric average.

So your definition of «stability» includes another Little Ice Age as a possibility.

If by some chance everybody (except Reid Bryson) turns out to have been horribly confused and at the end of the day we get an anthropogenic ice age as Reid Bryson used to predict, yes, that would certainly count as «disruption», and the embarrassment of scientists would be a small part of the problem.

No real ice core specialist would take the ice age as base for a comparison of CO2 levels, the more that the gas age range is in the next data column of Neftel's table.

What I do know, is that Geologically speaking, we are still in an ice - age (inter-glacial period, but still an ice age as we currently have ice - caps), so I know for a fact that earthly life as a whole will be quite happy once we have moved away from the unusually cold climate and can return to a warmer and more fruitful climate instead.

Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age as a local, North Atlantic phenomenon: Since when is Japan located in the North Atlantic?

The fact of the matter is, while the world is focused on anthropogenic global warming, warming induced by humans, what could potentially be a more serious and real matter is that of the coming ice age as the cycle suggests.

«The Little Ice Age as Recorded in the Stratigraphy of the Tropical Quelccaya Ice Cap.»

The application of trends to climate data began in the 1970s with the prediction of a coming ice age as temperatures declined from 1940.

Maybe we are heading for the ice age as some scientists say.

Presumably you would be just as worried about a naturally occuring plunge into ice age as an anthropogenic rapid warming.

In his latest film, The Day After Tomorrow he subjects the Big Apple to a new Ice Age as enormous tidal waves flood the city and then freezes over.

The film follows the never - ending travels of the last human survivors of a global ice age as they struggle to endure on an enormous, perpetually moving train that is sharply divided along class lines.

Is it possible that they have limited fat storage ability because their ancestors did have to survive the ice age as in Europe or desertic conditions as in Africa.

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.

For example, about 15,000 years ago, we came out of the last Ice Age as amazingly skilled hunters; we had to be to survive its rigors.

Those questioning the vulnerability of this species to warming will point to its successful survival through two previous warm intervals between ice ages as evidence the bear can deal with reduced ice and other big environmental shifts.

[Response: To pre-empt some mutual incomprehension, note that industrial CO2 rises are certainly an anthropgenic forcing and not a response (see here and here), but clearly CO2 changes over glacial - interglacial cycles is both a response (to Milankovitch - driven changes) and a forcing (since the additional radiative forcing from CO2 is about a third of that needed to keep the ice ages as cold as they are — see here).

1) The attribution of Global Warming to CO2, is not through simple correlation with data from ice ages as suggested here.

James Hansen has made the claim, numerious times, that there will be no more ice ages as long as Mankind continues to use fossil fuels.

The paleoclimate record combined with global models shows past ice ages as well as periods even warmer than today.

Not exact matches

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

The crisis engulfing the global steel industry is so severe that one of China's top producers has warned a new Ice Age has set in as mills confront overcapacity and Continue Reading

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Agage: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice AgAge, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice AgeAge).

But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as an engine and my pick rattled like a gun.The ice unravelled; we peeled it from his toothy face, glittering brown, a woody rubber round his mind, the Bronze Age still stuck to his tongue.We etched; I touched his....

There are valid arguments against some claims made as to the age of ice cores.

If you wait 5 minutes, the secular world will increase the age of the earth by billions of years... and then the ice core dates will be trivial and likely moved as well.

Their latest theories suggest that aboriginals made it to Australia at least 60,000 years ago, during the penultimate Ice Age and that their languages diversified as they spread throughout the continent.

One is changed environmental conditions for a discrete subpopulation of the original population, such as when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels, cutting species into subgroups.

I suspect that it will stay there until the temperature starts to decline again, at which point, as in the 1970s, we'll hear more about the inevitable return of an ice age.

By this interpretation, it seems to me, nothing is more wrong than to treat the Human as though it has been biologically stationary since the ending of the Ice Age.

Some other dating methods that have confirmed the age of the earth as being far greater than 10,000 yeras include: Stratigraphy, Dendrochronology, Obsidian Hydration Dating, Paleomagnetic / Archaeomagnetic, Luminescence Dating, Amino Acid Racemization, Fission - track Dating, Ice Cores, Cation Ratio, Fluorine Dating, Patination, oxidizable Carbon Ratio, Electron Spin Resonance, and Cosmic - ray Exposure Dating.

The Ice Age Floods have also been considered as an analog to understand geologic processes on Mars, where landforms strikingly similar to those in Eastern Washington exist.

Recent research has found evidence that comparable floods occurred much earlier in the Ice Age in the Columbia Basin, as much as 1 to 2 million years ago.

Ice Age in the schools, in the factories, in the high - rise silos we live in, in those smallest units formerly known as families.

Neanderthals as a lost race of human beings specially adapted to ice age conditions.

There is no evidence that any man's intellect on earth today is equal to Aristotle's, nor do we know with any surety that the brain capacity of mankind as a whole is greater now than it was in the Ice Age.

That makes it perfect to drizzle on veggies, brush on meat, serve as a dip with aged cheeses (or fruit) or dollop on ice cream.

- about 1 - 1.5 T simple syrup - small orange slice or large orange peel - bitters (right now I have whisky barrel aged bitters which are divine)- drip of water - muddle - top with ice - stir as pour in low - mid tier bourbon (Jim Beam > Bulleit > Makers, nothing above that though)- garnish with cherry

While Reinl believes that the «ice age is over,» the article, to its credit, goes on to present the other side of the debate, quoting a number of athletic trainers, and an orthopedic surgeon, as still believing in the value of ice, especially in the period immediately after injury, in order to reduce acute - injury bleeding, relieve post-activity soreness, and for pain relief.

Ice cream sandwiches and chips being sold to kids as young as kindergarten - aged?