Sentences with phrase «since end of the last ice age»

Sea level has been rising slowly and inexorably since the end of the last ice age, and the rate has not accelerated in a warming climate.

Mammoths» Last Stand St. Paul's landscape of treeless tundra has likely changed little since the end of the last ice age, some 12,000 years ago.

That doesn't sound like much, but it equals the temperature rise since the end of the last ice age, and the consequences could be devastating.

Ever since the end of last ice age 15,000 yrs ago.Before that it was 100,000 yrs of ice age.

The new results reveal that the pattern of modern ice loss is similar to that which has prevailed since the end of the last ice age.

The Siberian permafrost is melting, but that has been happening since the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago.

By measuring the bonds of prehistoric alkenones preserved in ancient layers of lake sediment, the team opened a window on Arctic temperature change since the end of the last Ice Age.

Everything we do at Hakai is framed with a historical perspective — especially the 15,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age.

Here's more previous analysis of Arctic ice patterns during the Holocene, the span since the end of the last ice age.

Here's another way to frame the question: Have we left the Holocene Epoch — the warm interval since the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago — and entered what is increasingly described as a geological epoch or age of our own making?

The paper, combining evidence of driftwood accumulation and beach formation in northern Greenland with evidence of past sea - ice extent in parts of Canada, concludes that Arctic sea ice appears to have retreated far more in some spans since the end of the last ice age than it has in recent years.

The 78 - author paper, published Sunday in Nature Geoscience, used a variety of indirect indicators of temperature, from tree rings to pollen grains, to build on other work charting temperature shifts since the end of the last ice age — including the recent Marcott et al paper, explored here, which used seabed sediments to chart 11,000 years of temperatures.

That's the change in the rate of change — very little change for many tens of thousands of years, then rapid change in the ecology as the climate changed naturally since the end of the last ice age.

In my print column, I review the research from the Northeast showing that far more intense scouring floods than this event have occurred throughout the period since the end of the last ice age.

Here's a cornerstone passage from the paper, reprising a longstanding view that the environmental conditions of the Holocene — the equable span since the end of the last ice age — is ideal:

The study finds that the rise in ocean heat (and temperature) in recent decades is far faster than anything seen earlier in the Holocene, the period since the end of the last ice age.

And there are plenty of important questions to resolve about the climate of the Holocene — this comfy warm interval humans have enjoyed since the end of the last ice age — before the human influence on the system built in recent decades.

That doesn't sound like much, but it equals the temperature rise since the end of the last ice age, and the consequences could be devastating.

It is also obvious that the world has been warming since the end of the last ice age ~ 15000 years ago.

That is the largest lost of our best arible land since the end of the last ice age.

Since the end of the last ice age, The Marshall Islands have survived 130 metres of sea - level rise, but the last 1.43 mm / year since 1950 is going to sink them, therefore compensation must be paid for by Western nations!

Since the end of the last ice age, Pacific Island atolls have survived 130 metres of sea - level rise, but global warming alarmists like Mark Kenny think that the last 1.43 mm / year since 1950 is going to sink them, therefore, compensation must be paid for by Western nations.

We've continually accommodated sealevel rise since the end of the last Ice Age.

We are on the 6th temperature uptick since the end of the last ice age and each one is weaker than the last.

«Our investigations show that uplift of the sea floor in this region, caused by the melting of the ice masses since the end of the last ice age, is probably the reason for the dissolution of methane hydrate.»

What «sea - level rise» alarmists won't tell you is that seas have risen 400 feet (120m) over the past 20,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age.

The increased amounts of greenhouse gases our activities are adding to the atmosphere have upset the balance that was in place since the end of the last ice age and the Earth is getting warmer than it was before we started burning large amounts of fossil fuels.

Sea levels have been increasing since the end of the last ice age, and the rate of change is near the lowest in the past 15,000 years.

The oceans are not rising any faster than they have since the end of the last ice age, polar ice caps and glaciers are not uniformly melting, and weather is not getting more extreme.

Sea level has been rising since the end of the last ice age and will continue to rise until the beginning of the next ice age.

The fact that global warming has been happening «naturally» since the end of the last ice age means that it is happening spontaneously completely independent of the need for that warming to be caused by the sun heating the oceans (and land of course).

Third IPCC report states baldly that global warming, unprecedented since end of last ice age, is «very likely,» with possible severe surprises.

«The last century stands out as the anomaly in this record of global temperature since the end of the last ice age,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences.

All this comes as a surprise to us because, in the 10,000 or so years since the end of the last ice age, the climate has been relatively stable.

For roughly the past 10,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age, human beings have enjoyed a relatively stable, comfortable «interglacial» period, during which they've invented everything from agriculture to moon rockets.

Seas have been rising since the end of the last Ice Age and if anything have stabilised.

«There have been similar and even larger warmings several times in the 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age.

During the last 10,000 years since the end of the last Ice Age, there has been what people call, mini ice ages.

Portnov used mathematical models to map the evolution of the permafrost, and thus calculate its degradation since the end of the last ice age.

Is it «The last century stands out as the anomaly in this record of global temperature since the end of the last ice age....

What is more, the Sun has been more active and for longer over the last 70 years than at almost any previous similar period over the past 11,400 years since the end of the last ice age.

In fact, since the end of the last ice age, there were four periods — each about 1,000 years long and peaking roughly every 3,000 years — that saw a substantial number of much more intense, scouring floods.

Sea levels, for example, have been increasing since the end of the last ice age.

If we built a rollercoaster that matched the shape of a graph of Earth's temperature history since the end of the last ice age, the track up the latest hill would be nearly vertical.

Recent estimates of the increase in global average temperature since the end of the last ice age are 4 to 5 °C (7 to 9 °F).

The ocean has been rising since the end of the last ice age, and this will continue.

Context: sea level has been rising off and on since the end of the last ice age.

Subsequent work by others has in fact suggested that these particular deposits have probably been unstable and slowly breaking down since the end of the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago.

It has been as a broad trend since the end of the last ice age ~ 10,000 years ago.

But the melting now under way appears to be at least as fast, if not faster, than anything in the geological record since the end of the last ice age, she said.