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We pieced together the most precise records of major climate events from thousands of years ago. Here’s what we found – The Conversation AU
The “last glacial period” saw huge, rapid climate changes. Our new research found they happened all around the world, and each time within just a few decades.
Between 115,000 and 11,700 years ago, the Earth would have been almost unrecognisable. Massive ice-sheets covered northern Europe and northern Asia, and about half of North America, and global sea-levels were as much as 130 meters lower than today.
In this period, known as the last glacial period, the climate was much cooler and drier than today. It was punctuated by some of the largest and most rapid climate change events in Earths recent geological history.
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