No big deal considering we went from a full on Ice Age in the 1970’s to out of control global warming just 15 years later
We never left the Quaternary - an age of cyclic transcontinental glaciations. we’ve had a nice warming lull (one of many!) for the last 20 thousand years or so (with a little cooling roughly 1400 to 1850 - “Little Ice Age”). Let’s hope this next climate trend isn’t too bad
Last Ice Age took just SIX months to arrive
By Daily Mail Reporter Climate catastrophe: Rapid climate change was the subject of the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow Climate catastrophe: Rapid climate change was the subject of the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research.
Previous studies have suggested the arrival of the last Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago took about a decade - but now scientists believe the process was up to 20 times as fast.
...the Northern Hemisphere was frozen by a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream, which allowed ice to spread hundreds of miles southwards from the Arctic.
Geological sciences professor William Patterson, who led the research, said: 'It would have been very sudden for those alive at the time. It would be the equivalent of taking Britain and moving it to the Arctic over the space of a few months.'
Maybe this bomb cyclone is really the next ice age kicking off!