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

This adds evidence for the controversial theory that seafaring people used a coastal route to move from Asia to North America at the very end of the last ice age, which ended 11,700 years ago.

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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.

It takes very little research to understand that the Earth has been warmer than present most of the time since the last Ice Age ended.

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

Gary, I first became suspicious when introduced to these warmist backradiation ideas — my very first problem with it was seeing the claimed «rise in industrial CO2 driving temperatures» linked to a temperature rise from, and described as the Earth's norm, the end of the Little Ice Age and realising the great outpouring from industry didn't begin until the middle of the last century, maybe you're too young to remember the few cars being driven on practically empty motorways in rush hour..

Since the end 10,000 years ago of the last ice age — itself a very rapid event — was the springboard for agriculture and civilisation, and eventually an Industrial Revolution based on fossil fuels, the story of climate change plays a powerful role in human history.

When the last ice age ended, the oceans were very close to 120 m (nearly 400 feet) LOWER than today (NASA's own website) As for runaway GHG induced heat, at the hight of our present right now, sea levels are STILL 4 - 6 meters LOWER than they wrre during the previous interglacial.

I believe that our presence here, on earth, in the numbers that we have managed to achieve, coupled with the fact that we have destroyed millions upon millions of oxygen producers (Trees) and have a penchant for asphalt and tarmac, which are very heat absorbing, and purposely keep reflective surfaces to a minimum (they're blinding) AND have created a civilization based on burning fossil fuels and using other things which are detrimental to our ecology, that, yes, we are probably responsible in large for the exelerated melting of the global ice... but, we have been in a state of warming since the last ice age ended... we just speeded up the process.