Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Hint? It ain't your SUV!-----Why did the last ice age end? | Live Science

Why did the last ice age end? | Live Science - By Cameron Duke
  • Nearly 10,000 years ago, Earth came out of its most recent ice age. Vast, icy swaths of land around the poles thawed, melting the glaciers that had covered them for nearly 100,000 years.
"Why, after such a long period of cold, did the ice age finally come to an end? 
Scientists are still searching for the answer...
Hall said that the traditional explanation — and short answer — for why ice ages begin and end is a series of eccentricities and wobbles in the planet's orbit known as the Milankovitch cycles...

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