At the
end of an ice age continental ice sheets, oceans and atmosphere change rapidly.
And regardless of the accuracy of this paleo data, we are talking roughly 4 degrees coming
out of the ice age over 8,000 years.
They also know that when CO2 was relatively low, the planet went through a
series of ice ages.
We're told that in the
depths of an ice age orbital changes provide a small forcing which warms the planet a tad, causing natural systems to release a small amount of CO2.
This may also help explain the cyclical rise and fall
of ice ages over hundreds of thousands of years.
This supported orbital
forcing of the ice ages and led to speculation that another ice age was inevitable as the planet moved toward the corresponding configuration.
In fact the earth still manages to go into and out
of ice ages on a regular bases regardless of what the CO2 concentration is at the time.
The
discovery of ice ages in the distant past proved that climate could change radically over the entire globe, which seemed vastly beyond anything mere humans could provoke.
Serious droughts and other unusual weather since 1972 increase scientific and public concern about climate change, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; journalists
talk of ice age.
It's important academically, but the most important point is temperatures coming out
of the ice age increased very slowly.
The current theory is that these underwater caves were formed above sea level a
number of ice ages ago when sea levels were about 400 feet lower.
The world is on the
verge of another ice age, and from all this, a science - experiment / reality TV series is born to give the world hope.
They stated a reason of coming out
of an ice age from 10,000 years ago, and a mini ice age in the early medieval times.
The invaluable fruit of a century
of ice ages research was the recognition of how complex and powerful the feedbacks could be.
So on a shorter time scale of say, 5,000 years, the natural variations of going into and out
of ice ages DO N'T average out.
The same mechanism explains why at the end
of ice ages deep southern ocean heating / currents start 2000 years before any atmospheric CO2 rise.
The tunnel turned up a
variety of ice age mammal bones — including the giant leg bone of a mammoth.
Only 7 papers over that 15 year period discussed the
possibility of an ice age coming, while about 45 papers discussed CO2 induced warming.
The intelligence of our species was honed by adapting to the
challenges of the ice age and we will rise to this challenge too.
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