Will there be a global cooling?

Climatic oscillations at higher frequencies are not predicted ... the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate".
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What can cause global cooling?

The global cooling might be the result of the changes in oceanic circulation and atmospheric CO2, both probably influencing each other and possibly initiated by tectonic processes.
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Is there global warming or cooling?

Here we show that periods of no trend or even cooling of the globally averaged surface air temperature are found in the last 34 years of the observed record, and in climate model simulations of the 20th and 21st century forced with increasing greenhouse gases.
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Can global warming cause cooling?

Hot and cold.

It seems counterintuitive, even ironic, that global warming could cause some regions to experience colder conditions. But a new study explains the Rube Goldberg-machine of climatic processes that can link warmer-than-average summers to harsh winter weather in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Is Earth in a cooling phase?

Despite short-term decreases in global temperature, the long-term trend shows that Earth continues to warm.
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Could Global Warming Start A New Ice Age?



Will global warming stop the next ice age?

OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming is likely to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze until about 100,000 years from now, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Are we currently in an ice age?

Like all the others, the most recent ice age brought a series of glacial advances and retreats. In fact, we are technically still in an ice age. We're just living out our lives during an interglacial.
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Why is it getting colder 2021?

One reason for cooler temperatures in 2021 was likely La Niña, a band of cold water in the Pacific. It's the product of strong trade winds that scour the ocean, pushing the top layer of water toward Asia, causing deeper, colder waters to rush to the surface to fill the void.
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Where Is the Earth getting colder?

One half of Earth is cooling faster than the other, researchers have discovered. The side of the planet which contains the Pacific Ocean is losing heat at a more rapid rate than the half which contains Africa, Europe and Asia.
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Is anywhere in the world getting colder?

Arctic sea ice has dwindled, but Antarctic sea ice has managed to grow. Joe Raedle/ Getty Images It's one of the most befuddling questions in climate science. As carbon pollution cranks up the global thermostat, the Southern Ocean is getting cooler, not warmer.
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When did the Earth cool enough?

By 4 billion years ago the earth had cooled enough for the outer layers to have solidified and for oceans to form.
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How cold was the ice age?

A team of scientists has nailed down the temperature at the peak of the last ice age, a time known as the Last Glacial Maximum, to about 46 degrees Fahrenheit.
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How hot was the Earth before the ice age?

Collisions between Earth and rocky debris in the early solar system would have kept the surface molten and surface temperatures blistering. Image courtesy NASA. Even after collisions stopped, and the planet had tens of millions of years to cool, surface temperatures were likely more than 400° Fahrenheit.
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Can we reverse climate change?

Yes. While we cannot stop global warming overnight, we can slow the rate and limit the amount of global warming by reducing human emissions of heat-trapping gases and soot (“black carbon”).
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When was the last ice age?

Also called the Pleistocene era, or simply the Pleistocene, this epoch began about 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, according to the International Commission on Stratigraphy (opens in new tab).
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Is Antarctica warming or cooling?

Satellite and surface temperature measurements show that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is cooling, not warming, and glacial ice is increasing, not melting. Satellite and surface temperature measurements of the southern polar area show no warming over the past 37 years.
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Will days be longer in the future?

Scientists say days are lengthening at a rate of about 1.8 milliseconds a century. If you've ever wished for longer days so you can get more done, a recent study offers a measure of good news. It shows that as the moon slowly spirals away from Earth and our planet's rotation slows, days are growing longer.
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Will there be a mini ice age?

Scientists have predicted that Earth is 15 years away from a "mini ice age," The Telegraph reports. Using a new model of the sun's activity, the solar researchers estimate that in the 2030s the movements of two waves of fluids within the star will lead to a 60% reduction in solar activity.
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Is Earth's core cooling down?

Earth's core is cooling at rates faster than previously thought, which could speed the planet's inevitable march toward uninhabitability millions or billions of years from now, researchers said this week.
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Is 2022 a hot year?

Year is 6th warmest on record so far

Last month's heat added to a very warm year, as 2022 so far ranked sixth warmest, according to scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
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Will 2022 be a hot summer?

Summer 2022 is expected to be hotter than average across a broad swath of the United States, according to an updated outlook from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and Atmospheric G2.
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Was 2021 a hot year?

Global warming and other long-term climate change trends are expected to continue as a result of record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the agency said. The average global temperature in 2021 was about 1.11 (± 0.13) °C above the pre-industrial era levels.
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How long will the Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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How long will it be until the next ice age?

Earlier this year, a team at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, published research suggesting a complex link between sunlight and atmospheric CO2, leading to natural global warming. By itself, this will delay the next Ice Age by at least 50,000 years.
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What was the warmest period in Earth's history?

The Eocene, which occurred between 53 and 49 million years ago, was Earth's warmest temperature period for 100 million years.
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