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“Scientists hypothesize that rapid cooling 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age was triggered when freshwater from melting glaciers altered the ocean’s salinity and slowed the overturning rate.”

Now I’m neither a rocket surgeon or brain scientist, so I’m probably rather confused during good times, but I’m trying to understand how there could be a “rapid cooling” at the “end of the last ice age”. I’ve always thought that it was cold during the ice ages with warming coming as they ended. Now these “scientists” say that there was a rapid cooling as it was warming up coming out of the ice age.

Can anyone ‘splain this in plain idiot terms or is this just a global warmist reporter moron’s (but I repeat myself) normal misrepresentation or misinterpretation of the facts of the story and trying to throw in some of his AGW talking points to try to counter the factual data he’s reporting on that doesn’t fit his agenda? (Sorta like putting his fingers in his ears and singing la-la-la-la loudly when anyone tries to show him factual data.)

I know there are “fluctuations” in the temperatures, but rising temps causing the ending of an ice age wouldn’t seem to me to be compatible with “rapid cooling” at the same time. Wouldn’t that bring back the ice age conditions that were just “ending”?

but I’m trying to understand how there could be a “rapid cooling” at the “end of the last ice age”

Hmmmm....maybe it is like the chicken and egg problem....I don't have a good answer.

The Glaciers can't melt without the atmosphere warming up....and we have this ...FR thread:

The deep oceans drive the atmosphere

My hubby, SirKit, told me to point you to the info on the Younger Dryas stadial. He also mentioned the possibility of a comet strike, about that time, that warmed the glaciers, causing their melting. The water then flowed through what it now the St. Lawrence Seaway system, thus introducing fresh water to the Atlantic, across to where the Gulf Stream comes up the Eastern Coast and messing with the salinity of the water, thus changing the Atlantic Conveyor.

This comet is also conjectured as being the reason for the rapid die off of the Clovis peoples, and the cause of lots of little indentations in the ground throughout the Carolinas. There is another wikipedia article about the Younger Dryas Event, that mentions the Clovis people.