[meteorite-list] Younger Dryas mini ice age

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:12:52 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <501489.2734.qm_at_web53104.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Dear List,
  A newly published paper on the Younger Dryas mini ice age.

 Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

    * 11 November 2009 by Kate Ravilious
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JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated.

Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by the Younger Dryas mini ice age, or "Big Freeze". It was triggered by the slowdown of the Gulf Stream, led to the decline of the Clovis culture in North America, and lasted around 1300 years. ...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427344.800-mini-ice-age-took-hold-of-europe-in-months.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=environment

Dirk Ross...Tokyo
Received on Tue 17 Nov 2009 07:12:52 PM PST