Sentences with phrase «transitions out of an ice age»

We're already causing a rate of warming faster than when the Earth transitions out of an ice age, and within a few decades we could be causing the fastest climate change Earth has seen in 50 million years.

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In a study released this fall, Petrenko analyzed methane from 12,000 years ago during the last deglaciation, when Earth was transitioning out of the last ice age.

The well - known transition from the relatively warm Medieval into the «little ice age» turns out to be part of a much longer - term cooling, which ended abruptly with the rapid warming of the 20th Century.

Paleoclimatologist Hai Cheng of the University of Minnesota and his colleagues then compared this record with climatic transitions, such as the shift into and out of an Ice Age.