How the last Ice Age ended
An Age of Why cinematic deep history explainer. Original AI-generated illustrative imagery and reconstructions; synthetic narration. Illustrative images are not records of specific events.
Sources:
Is today's climate change similar to the natural warming between ice ages? — https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/todays-climate-change-similar-natural-warming-between-ice-ages
Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them? — https://geology.utah.gov/ice-ages-what-are-they-and-what-causes-them/
Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth’s Climate — https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/climate-science/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
Illuminating carbon’s climate effects — https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/illuminating-carbons-climate-effects/
Carbon release from ocean helped end the Ice Age — https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2015/02/ice-age-carbon.page
Paleoclimatology: Explaining the Evidence — https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/paleoclimatology-explaining-the-evidence/
How long have sea levels been rising? How does recent sea-level rise compare to that over the previous centuries? — https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/13/how-long-have-sea-levels-been-rising-how-does-recent-sea-level-rise-compare-to-that-over-the-previous/
Chapters:
0:00 A World Buried in Ice
1:06 A Nudge From Earth's Orbit
2:32 The Ice That Fed Its Own Melting
3:25 Meltwater Jams the Ocean's Conveyor Belt
4:19 The Ocean Breathes Out
5:59 A Bumpy Road Out of the Cold
6:56 Rising Seas and Moving Life
7:46 The Ice Age That Never Quite Ended
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