RealFeedApp The Barnes Ice Cap stopped growing in 1960
New research indicates that human-driven climate change stopped the formation of a new glaciation period that was expected to begin around 20,000 years ago. Since 1960, an ice cap in Canada has begun to shrink abruptly.
- Field
- climate and environment
- What they did
- Researchers found that an ice cap in Canada began shrinking around 1960, which coincided with rising summer temperatures caused by human burning of fossil fuels.
- Why it matters
- This suggests that human activity may have halted the start of the next ice age, which was about to begin roughly 2,000 years ago.
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