Study Adds Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended

Study Adds Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:08:00 -0500

As the last ice age was ending, about 13,000 years ago, a final blast of cold hit Europe, and for a thousand years or more, it felt like the ice age had returned.

But oddly, despite bitter cold winters in the north, Antarctica was heating up.

For the two decades since ice core records revealed simultaneous warming and cooling at opposite ends of the planet during this time period, scientists have looked for an explanation.

Results of a new study published this week in the ...

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