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we are exiting the ice age (Pleistocene Ice Age), so it's not THAT surprising, what's surprising is the pace, it's going faster than expected
by Shadonototra 5y ago
we are exiting the ice age (Pleistocene Ice Age), so it's not THAT surprising, what's surprising is the pace, it's going faster than expected
- ejolto 5y agoI wonder if it's got anything to do with the 34 billion tons of CO2 we released into the atmosphere.
- akomtu 4y agoCO2 is just a small part of it. Methane plays a big role and a bunch of other emissions nobody accounts for. Microplastics in the oceans reflecting the sunlight must have a big impact too.
- jpeter 5y agoFaster than expected with or without human driven global warming?
- Shadonototra 4y agowhat ever is influencing it, human activity, solar activity, seismic activity, siberia, many causes
- polotics 4y agoThere's an UN IPCC report for what you got! Whateverism doesn't cut it in 2022 I'm afraid.
- Shadonototra 4y agodownvoted? ok.. to the uneducated people: > Like all the others, the most recent ice age brought a series of glacial advances and retreats. In fact, we are technically still in an ice age. We’re just living out our lives during an interglacial. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-coldest-earths-ever-been https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-colde...