Current Climate Change Caused by The Last Interglacial Cycle?
The last glaciation in Earth's history, also popularly known as the "Ice Age," ended approximately 11,700 years ago and gave way to the Holocene, the time we are in today. This is also classified as the "INTERGLACIAL PERIOD."
2024-09-27 16:00:00 - Insane Curiosity
An interglacial period is a time interval of several thousand years during which global temperatures increase. This causes ice masses such as glaciers and polar ice caps to decrease and sea levels to rise temporarily until the next glacial period.
Throughout history, there have been many glacial and interglacial periods; in fact, the Holocene or postglacial period in which we are is just one more.
But if the changes we observe today have always occurred during all interglacial periods of Earth's history, what role do humans play in climate change?
Is human activity related to the changes we observe in the Earth's climate, or is it a natural process that has always occurred?
00:00 - Intro
02:40 - The current glacial cycle
03:30 - Previous interglacial periods
05:53 - Rising temperatures during interglaciers
08:04 - Do humans have anything to do do with it?
10:38 - End of the interglacial