Sentences with phrase «shortly after the last ice age»
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Besides being a lead author on several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. Alley led one of the groups that first discerned in Greenland's ice layers how the climate has seen extraordinary jogs in temperature, particularly shortly after the end of the last ice age.
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Global temperatures began warming again following a much shorter «Little Ice Age» which lasted from about 1350 until shortly after General Washington's troops spent a brutally cold winter at Valley Forge in 1777, and Napoleon's beat a brutally frigid retreat from Moscow in 1812.