Sentences with phrase «possibility of an ice age»

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Colin... Your statement of «when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels» is speculation of a possibility, not a scientifically accepted specific hypothesis.

Four years later, he was given a book about the Ice Age and, as he puts it, «twigged to the possibilities of permafrost.»

Yuka, an exceptionally well - preserved mammoth, is on exhibit in Japan, opening a window on life in the ice age and the possibility, experts say, of cloning the extinct animals thanks to Yuka stil having liquid blood and, potentially, stem cells.

As alluded to in our post, one important issue is the possibility that changes in El Nino may have significantly offset opposite temperature variations in the extratropics, moderating the influence of the extratropical «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval Warm Period» on hemispheric or global mean temperatures (e.g. Cobb et al (2003).

Regarding the possibility that human emission - related warming will prevent the next ice age, I read somewhere that technically we are still in an ice age, the inter-glacial part of it, and that an ice age is defined as when the Earth has permenent snow and ice at the poles.

And I'd rather deal with the problem of farming in a warmer climate than farming under attack by Martian death rays — which is as relevent as the possibility of a new ice age for the next 150 + years.

As alluded to in our post, one important issue is the possibility that changes in El Nino may have significantly offset opposite temperature variations in the extratropics, moderating the influence of the extratropical «Little Ice Age» and «Medieval Warm Period» on hemispheric or global mean temperatures (e.g. Cobb et al (2003).

To extend the metaphor we must also consider the possibility of the ball dropping in the green slot making both red and black losing bets as the climate shifts back towards its predominat ice age condition.

There is the possibility that the relative importance of CO2 as a climate forcer increases as it transcends the other controllers of Earth's energy balance (some of which may be masked more in ice age studies — like uncertainties around the amount of ice age aerosol climate forcing, ice age thermohaline stability and as always insolation differences throughout the Pleistocene).

David Archer wrote a book called «The Long Thaw» about the possibility of the extra CO2 making the next Ice Age not happen.

fanciful — has it ever been proposed that ocean heat uptake during interglacials might be the planets way of preparing for the next ice age, when the oceans give up the heat to preserve continuity of life on the surface — I know, sounds a bit link an intelligent Gaia mythology, but doesn't the notion of synergy suggest the possibility?

According to the academy report on climate, we may be approaching the end of a major interglacial cycle, with the approach of a full - blown 10,000 - year ice age a real possibility.

Conversely, during low solar activity during the Little Ice Age, transport of warm water was reduced by 10 % and Arctic sea ice increased.17 Although it is not a situation I would ever hope for, if history repeats itself, then natural climate dynamics of the past suggest, the current drop in the sun's output will produce a similar cooler climate, and it will likely be detected first as a slow down in the poleward transport of ocean heat.22 Should we prepare for this possibiliIce Age, transport of warm water was reduced by 10 % and Arctic sea ice increased.17 Although it is not a situation I would ever hope for, if history repeats itself, then natural climate dynamics of the past suggest, the current drop in the sun's output will produce a similar cooler climate, and it will likely be detected first as a slow down in the poleward transport of ocean heat.22 Should we prepare for this possibiliice increased.17 Although it is not a situation I would ever hope for, if history repeats itself, then natural climate dynamics of the past suggest, the current drop in the sun's output will produce a similar cooler climate, and it will likely be detected first as a slow down in the poleward transport of ocean heat.22 Should we prepare for this possibility?

Although the I.P.C.C. allowed for the possibility that variations in sunlight could have ended the «Little Ice Age,» a period of cooling from the 14th century to about 1850, our data argues strongly that the temperature rise of the past 250 years can not be attributed to solar changes.

So your definition of «stability» includes another Little Ice Age as a possibility.

Early in the third millennium AD, Dr. Robert Gagosian of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution postulated the possibility of a new mini ice age within two decades.

A very few meteorologists speculated about possibilities for more rapid change, perhaps even the sudden onset of an ice age.

«Preparing for the possibility of an impending ice age along with the possible consequences of a reduction in Earth's magnetic field are real concerns.

Among the issues discussed: solar energy variations that could contribute to the ebb and flow of ice ages, new understanding of ice ages and the possibility of cooling because of aerosol pollution, but also the possible confounding factor of increasing greenhouse gases:

Policy is interested in what may happen in reality, where the probability distribution is probably symmetric, given the real possibility of a new ice age, something the models can not see.

In the long term, the current could be shut down altogether, which would lead to dramatic shifts in global weather patterns, including the possibility of bringing much of Northern Europe back into an ice age.

I've never disagreed with the possibility of climate disruption from anthropenic activities I've only argued that disruption is very likely to be overshadowed by net benefits like modest warming when the earth has been in a ice age for 4 million years, more warming in the higher latitudes and less in the lower exactly where most people would wish for warming (or lack thereof), and fertilization of the atmosphere with CO2 (plant food).

But wait, skeptics will say, what about that Science article that predicted the possibility of a future ice age triggered by a fourfold increase in aerosols?