But changing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 also plays a key role in driving both cooling during the onset of ice ages and warming at their end. The global average temperature was around 4C cooler ...

Everytime the amount of carbon in the atmosphere doubles, the planet’s temperature should increase by 3.4 degrees celsius (6.1F), the researchers found. During the ice age atmospheric carbon ...

1990a, Zaucker & Broecker 1992), while others argue changes in atmospheric circulation ... A period of lower temperatures during the last Ice Age Interstadial: A period of abrupt warming during ...

The line, which charts ... Ocean temperatures are so anomalously high that Eliot Jacobson, a retired mathematics professor who created the graph using data from the National Oceanic and ...

Scientists call this period, the point during the Ice Age at which the glaciers ... or “how much the global temperature shifts in response to atmospheric carbon,” per the University of ...

The relatively pleasant global climate of the past 10,000 years is largely thanks to higher levels of atmospheric ... temperatures. "CO2 was the big driver of global warming at the end of the Ice ...