Sentences with phrase «out of glacial periods»

The planet reaches an essential equilibrium during these periods in that it reaches a certain temperature range for 10,000 or 20,000 years and does not continue the warming it did to rise out of the glacial period.

Whether this change in cyclicity means that Earth is heading into still colder climates, or on its way out of this glacial period, I don't know.

Not exact matches

Interesting study out on the outgassing of CO2 from the northern Pacific to end the last glacial period:

The hidden way to get rid of the heat trapped by CO2 and Ch4 will be most interesting since it didn't get rid of the heat that got us out of the last glacial period.

The recurrence of a glacial period could wipe billions of people out, although it might well save our sea life.

When feedback is positive, it most definitely may not linear... for if it was, we would never have gotten out of the last glacial period.

One such as Rajendra Pachauri's attack on an Indian scientist for pointing out for four years that the IPCC's claim on Himalayan glaciers was incorrect during the period that the consulting firm he led, TERI, was negotiating for a large contract to study the glacial melting of Himalayan glaciers.

During the last glacial period, sea level dropped 400 feet as water was tied up in ice, and as we have moved out of the cold glacial period, sea level has recovered.

The ubiquitous character of certain events further confirms their importance: «the Younger Dryas and a large number of abrupt changes during the last ice age called Dansgaard / Oeschger events (23 abrupt changes into a climate of near - modern warmth and out again, during the last glacial period) have been corroborated in multiple ice cores from Greenland, Antarctica and tropical mountains, marine sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean, the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and from various records on land.

Kent points out that according to the Milankovitch theory, we should be at the peak of a 20,000 - some year warming trend that ended the last glacial period; the Earth may eventually start cooling again over thousands of years, and possibly head for another glaciation.

Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.

1998 was near the tail end of a decade that jumped well above the mean average longer term rate of increase (there is a thing called climate variability, it didn't disappear with climate change, and if anything probably only intensified;, and ocean warming and glacial melt both accelerated during this period, taking more energy out of the air — see below).

If it turned out that rapid climate change events are caused by comets, it would imply the climate system is far more stable than we thought, that abrupt climate change events are not part of the inherent variability of climate during glacial periods.