Sentences with phrase «next glaciation»
The phrase "next glaciation" refers to a future period of time when Earth might experience another ice age. It implies a significant drop in temperatures, causing massive ice sheets to form and cover large areas of land. Full definition
Re # s 1 and 2: As discussed previously on this blog, without human intervention the next glaciation would still be many thousands of years off.
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You ever think that perhaps the warming of the planet hits a particular threshold and kickstarts the next glaciation?
«As discussed previously on this blog, without human intervention the next glaciation would still be many thousands of years off.»
David Archer and [Andrey] Ganopolski, back in 2004 [«A movable trigger: Fossil fuel CO2 and the onset of the next Glaciation»], used modeling to show that human CO2 is heading off ice ages for perhaps a long time if we keep burning.
A quasi-stable «forest» will eventually establish; perhaps even before the next glaciation.
on top of the slow slide towards the next glaciation, due to the current state of the Milankovitch cycles, plus there was also concern about a «nuclear winter» (a lot of dust thrown up) should a war break out adding a lot to the several cooling elements.
We have evidence from the Greenland ice cores that previous warming spells (Minoan, Roman, Medieval) lasted for a short time, so from that point of view we have all reason to believe that the current warming is also just a short - lived warming spell, and that in the big 400 - year - smoothed picture, we're still on a long trip downwards to the next glaciation.
The pack had been growing in recent millenia; the height of post-glacial warming was reached perhaps 8,000 years ago, and the planet had been cooling, gradually and fitfully, yet seemingly inescapably, as the Earth's orbit shifted subtly toward the next glaciation.
It will lower again when the motion towards the next glaciation begins, this IS natural.
One notable scientific estimate — Berger and Loutre, 2002, in Science — puts the next glaciation 50,000 years in the future.
Also, does anyone think mankind will delay or stop the next glaciation period?
And even if it is pretty warm right now, the die is cast for the next glaciation and the ice will come again.
1974 Hermann Flohn, «Background of a Geophysical Model of the Initiation of the Next Glaciation.»