Sentences with phrase «of the ice age helped»

The invention of fat - burning lamps toward the end of the Ice Age helped to transform European culture.

Not exact matches

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

The seafloor eruptions — big sources of carbon dioxide and other gases — might also help clear up an enduring mystery about ice ages: why they start gradually and end suddenly.

This may also help explain the cyclical rise and fall of ice ages over hundreds of thousands of years.

With the help of a fictional guide dubbed John Lubbock, modeled after a Victorian naturalist who wrote a popular book called Prehistoric Times, Mithen embarks on a vivid tour of the warming world as it emerged from the last ice age.

A study of life and extinctions among woolly mammoths and other ice - age animals suggests that interconnected habitats can help Arctic mammal species survive environmental changes.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of Saturn's rings, wide belts of shiny ice chunks orbiting the planet.

New research by Professor Beth Shapiro of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and University of Alberta Professor Duane Froese has identified North America's oldest bison fossils and helped construct a bison genealogy establishing that a common maternal ancestor arrived between 130,000 and 195,000 years ago, during a previous ice age.

Besides two Homo erectus skeletons, it contains stalagmites that have helped solve one of the greatest mysteries in climate science: why the ice ages came and went when they did.

Like the Milankovitch cycles, sunspot cycles» effects are too weak and too frequent to explain the start and end of ice ages but very probably help to explain temperature variations within them.

Mayweather uses a Cryosauna, which is a new - age kind of an ice bath, which helps him with faster recovery.

There is hardly any women in the world who does not want to preserve her beauty for the longest time possible and I can assure you a simple ice cube can do real wonders to your skin.The ice cube therapy can help minimize pores and control the oil production.It also prevents premature ageing and the appearance of wrinkles.Regular use of ice cubes will give your face fresh and healthy glow so that you will look gorgeous even with no makeup on.

Learning to appreciate individual peculiarities, they help one another face the fears and uncertainties of their changing world and ride out the rising tides in Ice Age: The Meltdown.

During the prehistoric ice age, a misfit group consisting of a Mammoth (voiced of Ray Romano), a sloth (John Leguizamo), and a saber - tooth tiger (Denis Leary) begrudgingly work together because they are too warm - hearted not to help a lost human child return to its herd.

Festival villages will be constructed at the Keauhou Shopping Center including a Kona Coffee Corridor with free samples and Kona coffee for sale direct from the farmers; a Kids World offering games and activities with hours of fun and excitement for any age; the Ethnic Food Market, a very popular stop where Festival goers can eat their way through authentic local food favorites including laulau and fish plate lunches, adobo, huli huil chicken, and all time favorite musubi and shave ice; plus a Christmas craft fair with unique items will help festival - goers get a jump on holiday shopping.

This impact helped form the cenotes, along with millions of years of erosion, plus rising water levels after the last ice age which causes the caves to flood.

The LGM [again this is the peak of the last ice age] gives us some information on how the climate responds to reduced CO2 in a cooler world, and that can help evaluate models used to project the future.

For thousands of years, humans have been changing global climate, maybe even helping us avert the next ice age, all long before the Industrial Revolution.

As the earth continues to recover from the abnormally cold conditions of the centuries - long Little Ice Age, warmer temperatures, improving soil moisture, and more abundant atmospheric carbon dioxide have helped bring about a golden age for global agricultural productiAge, warmer temperatures, improving soil moisture, and more abundant atmospheric carbon dioxide have helped bring about a golden age for global agricultural productiage for global agricultural production.

But new research has shown evidence of a 200 - year lag between climate events in Greenland and Antarctica during the last ice age, and it could possibly help shed light on the consequences of climate change in the future.

Lower temperatures = less melting = more ice = lower temperatures, on and on and until factors # 1 and # 2 rescue us from turning into a giant snowball (or, during the most extreme ice age, a spate of volcanic eruptions eventually helped belch out enough carbon dioxide to warm the atmosphere and reset the thermostat.)

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.

The fact that the Pleistocene doesn't duplicate current levels of CO2 hardly helps your argument: even ignoring the amber evidience, other more ancient proxies indicate periods of much higher CO2 than at present, accompanied by unaffected temperatures, even ice ages.

Obviously, the world came out of the ice age just fine without the help of CO2.