Global Warming could forestall Ice Age
SEP 10, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023669
NYTimes.com : The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report .Scientists familiar with the work, published journal Science , said it provided fresh evidence that human activity is not only warming the globe, particularly the Arctic, but could also even fend off what had been presumed to be an inevitable descent into a new ice age over the next few dozen millenniums. Related Link Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling
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