Why do ice ages end?
May 13th, 2004
We got to talking at the office about certain more or less scientific
treatments about near-term global climate change. It occurred to us,
though, that we knew all the stories about how an ice age might
start (mostly revolving around the shutdown of the Global
Oceanic Conveyor), but none of us knew how ice ages end. The
Climate
Cycles section of UCSD’s Climate
Change course materials proved very informative in this
regard. (The deglaciation theory revolves around the potential
energy present in ice when accumulated in large deposits on the
planet.)