The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life
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Stephen Drury Date Deposited: And the physical shape of the continents would look completely different across the whole planet. Ocean ports would no longer be on the ocean, and anyone wanting water views would need to relocate large distances. An ice age is triggered when summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere fail to rise above freezing for years. Since the dawn of the industrial age levels have risen by ppm and counting. Dr Phipps is also a climate system modeller and palaeoclimatologist with the University of Tasmania.
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Abstract. The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past The Great Ice Age: climate change and life. R.C.L. Wilson, S.A. Drury and J.L. Chapman. Publisher: Routledge and the Open University.
The Quaternary glaciation The Quaternary glaciation Compared to conditions on Earth 20, to 30, years ago we are clearly not in an ice age now But in terms of the long history of the Earth we are actually still in an overarching ice age period - known as the Quaternary glaciation - which has been going for the last 2. At the moment, the Earth is just in a slightly warmer period, an interglacial. There have been at least four other overarching ice ages in the Earth's history, the oldest started about 2, million years ago. Bayes' theorem to the rescue Meet the Australian woman who remembers almost everything NT Department of Environment admits gas giant Inpex must 'approve' interviews with its scientists WA is smack-bang in the middle of a tectonic plate, so why does it get so many earthquakes?
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