Sentences with phrase «mild ice years»

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Before the transition, glacial cycles, consisting of cold ice ages and milder interludes, typically lasted about 40,000 years — but those weaker cycles gave way to longer - lasting icy eras with cycles lasting roughly 100,000 years.

e.g. there is 1) a mild global cooling from the Holocene Climatic Optimum 2) A millenial scale oscillation of ~ 1500 years per Loehle & Singer above (i.e. an approximately linear rise from the Little Ice Age — or better an accelerating natural warming since the LIA) 3) A 50 - 60 year multidecadal oscillation.

Recent mild warming over the past 150 years merely represents a recovery from the Little Ice Age which was the catastrophic cooling phase that followed the MWP.

If your model of modern civilisation is the Titanic, during and after its encounter with the fateful iceberg 100 years ago, then any apparent good news (Himalayan ice not melting, sea level rise not accelerating, mild winters not continuing, etc.) is not going to be considered very helpful.

We speculate that mortalities due to off - shore swimming during late - ice (or mild ice) years may be an important and unaccounted source of natural mortality given energetic demands placed on individual bears engaged in long - distance swimming.

Mild Little Ice Age and unprecedented recent warmth in an 1800 year lake sediment record from Svalbard, PNAS, v. 40, no. 10, doi: doi: 10.1130 / G33365.1.

We speculate that mortalities due to offshore swimming during late - ice (or mild ice) years may be an important and unaccounted source of natural mortality given energetic demands placed on individual bears engaged in long - distance swimming.

«On the basis of van Loon's prediction of a mild winter and a cold summer I'll predict now that this winter's Arctic ice maximum will not exceed last winter's and that next summer's melt will be even less than this year.

Walt (04:46:34) On the basis of van Loon's prediction of a mild winter and a cold summer I'll predict now that this winter's Arctic ice maximum will not exceed last winter's and that next summer's melt will be even less than this year.

'' The climate in the northern regions has never been milder since the last Ice Age than it was about 6000 - 7000 years ago.»