Sentences with phrase «warm interglacial phases»
Currently, the shifts between ice ages and warm interglacial phases are thought to be influenced by three cyclical changes to Earth's motion.
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«Currently, our planet is in a warm phase — an interglacial period — and the associated increased climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account for future projections of warming induced by human activities.»
The ice ages were actually many pulses of cold glacial phases interspersed with warmer interglacials.
Remember, we are at or near what would, absent global warming, be the end of the current interglacial phase of the earth's million - year - old climate cycle.
These include sudden cold events (Heinrich events / stadials), warm events (Interstadials) and the beginning and ending of long warm phases, such as the Eemian interglacial.
And that we are in a globally warming phase is anyway obvious for anybody who heard at least once the word «interglacial».
Ignoring the warming at the beginning of the Eemian interglacial, look at the cooling phase of the interglacial.
«Currently, our planet is in a warm phase — an interglacial period — and the associated increased climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account for future projections of warming induced by human activities.»
If the global climate temperature trend is positive, as one might expect during the warming phase of an interglacial period, then humankind will be best served by adapting as the alternative would seem to be unrealistic.
It could mean that we are actually in the warming phase of the current interglacial or that we are on the leading edge of a positive «noise» artifact within a long - term either positive, negative, or neutral trend.