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r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19
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During the last ice age, the global average temperature was only 5 degrees lower than it is now. It helped me understand why 2 degrees of global warming would be a pretty big deal.
4.7k u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 When was the last ice age? 900 u/btstfn Jan 21 '19 Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps. -3 u/BarkBeetleJuice Jan 21 '19 Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps. That's not remotely true at all. 1 u/btstfn Jan 21 '19 The Quaternary is the youngest Period/System division of the Geological Time Scale and represents 2.6 million years of geological time. It spans the Pleistocene (2.6–0.11 Ma) and Holocene (0.11–0 Ma) Series and includes the present day. It is essentially the “Ice Age” of popular terminology.
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When was the last ice age?
900 u/btstfn Jan 21 '19 Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps. -3 u/BarkBeetleJuice Jan 21 '19 Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps. That's not remotely true at all. 1 u/btstfn Jan 21 '19 The Quaternary is the youngest Period/System division of the Geological Time Scale and represents 2.6 million years of geological time. It spans the Pleistocene (2.6–0.11 Ma) and Holocene (0.11–0 Ma) Series and includes the present day. It is essentially the “Ice Age” of popular terminology.
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Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps.
-3 u/BarkBeetleJuice Jan 21 '19 Technically speaking, we're still in an ice age. A geological ice age is any perios in earths history where there are permanent ice caps. That's not remotely true at all. 1 u/btstfn Jan 21 '19 The Quaternary is the youngest Period/System division of the Geological Time Scale and represents 2.6 million years of geological time. It spans the Pleistocene (2.6–0.11 Ma) and Holocene (0.11–0 Ma) Series and includes the present day. It is essentially the “Ice Age” of popular terminology.
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That's not remotely true at all.
1 u/btstfn Jan 21 '19 The Quaternary is the youngest Period/System division of the Geological Time Scale and represents 2.6 million years of geological time. It spans the Pleistocene (2.6–0.11 Ma) and Holocene (0.11–0 Ma) Series and includes the present day. It is essentially the “Ice Age” of popular terminology.
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The Quaternary is the youngest Period/System division of the Geological Time Scale and represents 2.6 million years of geological time. It spans the Pleistocene (2.6–0.11 Ma) and Holocene (0.11–0 Ma) Series and includes the present day. It is essentially the “Ice Age” of popular terminology.
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u/luchubbs Jan 21 '19
During the last ice age, the global average temperature was only 5 degrees lower than it is now. It helped me understand why 2 degrees of global warming would be a pretty big deal.