ice age
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The immediate cause of the ice age was a drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide by around 8 parts per million. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "European Discovery of the Americas Killed So Many People It Made the Earth Colder," 5 Feb. 2019 His collection also sheds light on how moraine study in general helped geologists in New York and elsewhere discover that the planet had experienced a series of ice ages. — William J. Broad, New York Times, "How the Ice Age Shaped New York," 5 June 2018 Instead, this cooling is caused by a minor ice age that happened hundreds of years ago. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "One Part of the Ocean Is Getting Colder, Thanks to Medieval Climate Change," 7 Jan. 2019 Is the big one about to blow, blanketing the U.S. with ash and sending the Earth into a volcanic ice age? — Fox News, "Quakes and eruptions spark talks of Yellowstone supervolcano," 2 Oct. 2018 The idea that there was widespread scientific belief in the 1970s about a new ice age is common among climate change skeptics, though in reality scientific concern over global cooling was limited. — Andrew Kaczynski And Nathan Mcdermott, CNN, "Trump's pick for top UN migration job gave misleading answers on tweets critical of climate change," 8 May 2018 Their study may help explain why tail weaponry has gone missing since dinosaurs and some ice age animals went extinct. — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, "Where Did Animals With Tail Weapons Go? Here’s a Back Story," 16 Jan. 2018 Both monuments represent a leap beyond the naturalistic images of the ice age. — Andrew Curry, Science | AAAS, "This 11,000-year-old statue unearthed in Siberia may reveal ancient views of taboos and demons," 25 Apr. 2018 These ice ages are caused by the planet's slowly-shifting rotational tilt. — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, "Study Says Mars Had a Lot of Water Just 500,000 Years Ago," 23 June 2015These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'ice age.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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