The 68-mile route to the fishing town of Ullapool is a relatively recent addition to a landscape forged in the Ice Age, when melting glaciers gouged its long, deep valleys and seawater-filled lochs and fjords.
During the first half of the twentieth century, as global temperatures rose in the aftermath of the Little Ice Age, rainfall in the Sahel increased dramatically.
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Compared to the previous installments in the "Ice Age" series, "Continental Drift" fell smack dab between the second and third film's openings.
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Very few if any skeptics assert that the earth is still in the Little Ice Age.
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According to Huntford, cave drawings suggest that man used skis during the last Ice Age in the Palaeolithic period.
There has indeed been some warming, perhaps about 0.8 degrees Celsius, since the end of the so-called Little Ice Age in the early 1800s.
Reflecting its global scope, evidence of the Little Ice Age appears in the Southern Hemisphere as well.
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U.S. and global soil moisture improved throughout the 20th century as our planet warmed in its recovery from the Little Ice Age.
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In the history of the planet, Pearce argues, the past 10, 000 years since the end of the last ice age, in which humanity has established itself as the earth's dominant species, have been unusually benign in climatological terms.
The scientists are concerned that the biosphere has seen dramatic changes since the last Ice Age, factoring in the climate and a huge increase in global population.
Effects of the latter episode, the Little Ice Age, persisted in the Schnidejoch for so long that even the locals forgot that a useful pass was ever there.
That distribution suggests that some of the first men to bear the haplogroup in their Y-chromosomes were residents of Doggerland, a real-life Atlantis that was swallowed up by rising seas in the millennia following the Ice Age.
The ice that preserved his mummified corpse lay unmelted, 3, 250 metres above sea level, for more than 5, 000 years - since the world was in its warmest phase following the most recent ice age.
So looking at the amount of 13C in bubbles formed at the end of the ice age should help to resolve the issue of where the methane came from.
He relates, at length, the story of the Little Ice Age, the five-hundred-year period, in the early modern age, when Europe was colder than it has been since or was before.
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When the North Sea formed at the end of the last ice age, the tusks became buried in the thin layers of sand at the bottom of the shallow southern part of it.
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The research shows that a one-degree temperature variation that took 11 millennia to occur since the end of the last major ice age has now been replicated in 150 years, since the early days of the Industrial Revolution.
The world have indeed been hotter than now in the last 11, 800 years (roughly since the end of the last ice age).
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Romano still earns plenty though from reruns of his beloved show Everybody Loves Raymond and the Ice Age franchise, in which he plays wooly mammoth Manny.
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Against this idea, is the fact that, so far, no post-ice age evidence of human presence has been found in the area before 7, 000 years ago.
The increase in global temperatures since the late 19th century just reflects the end of the Little Ice Age.
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The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age were an embarrassment for those who, in recent years, wished to play down the natural variations in climate that occurred before the Industrial Revolution.
The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s.
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Earlier projections apparently failed to account for rebounding changes in the Earth's crust following the last Ice Age (referred to as "glacial isostatic adjustment").
The second is that the planetary-boundaries group derives most of its limits by looking at conditions during the Holocene the epoch since the end of the most recent ice age, in which human civilisations have grown up.
Citing a nonexistent consensus of scientists, the political choirs ignore all evidence that temperatures today, though admittedly warming up from the "little ice age" of the last millennium, are cooler than their average in the human era.
But his film earnings from the Ice Age trilogy helped put him in 13th place.
At the same time, Europe and North America experienced bitterly cold winters in what has come to be known as the Little Ice Age.
In fact, they dated from the end of the last ice age, long before the first stones had been laid at the Pyramids, Stonehenge or the Acropolis.
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