Bringing cold ice to its melting point in a few years,
instead of a few centuries, implies that the ice suddenly becomes able to move a lot faster.
Conservative estimates so far, projected irreversible melting in the
course of a few centuries, depending on the temperature increase.
The cold of the Little Ice Age
of a few centuries ago seems to have involved both a little extra sun - blocking effect from explosive volcanic eruptions, and a small reduction in the sun's output....
unusually low sunspot activity appears to be specifically aligned with the little ice
age of a few centuries ago.
But beneath his self - assurance and the organization's bluster is a vulnerability both profound and unspoken: Bloomberg's epic multidecade run — the
equivalent of a few centuries in the fast - moving technology sphere — has rested on a single product.
His four remarkable days in the United Kingdom were an historic event that would have been impossible to imagine even a few short decades ago, to say
nothing of a few centuries ago.
However, I think we need to take a good hard look at the Pliocene, because we have driven one parameter straight into that era in a
matter of a few centuries.
They might have formed when an entire herd of dinosaurs got stuck in quicksand all at once, or they might be the result of individuals getting stuck over the
course of a few centuries.
1.8 - million - year - old skull shakes mankind's family tree — The fifth such skull from the region spanning a
period of a few centuries, it's known at present only as «Skull 5» — it hasn't received a clever name yet like Lucy, the remarkable African skeleton found in the 70s and dating back 3.4 million years.
The potential consequences of warming include widespread famine, triggered by extreme drought in the major grain - producing areas of the world; the wholesale disappearance of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course
of a few centuries.»
As illustrated above, temperatures cooled since then but frequently spiked or plummeted by 2 to 3 degrees over the course
of a few centuries.