Re: "Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in the Last 485 Million Years"

On 9/28/2024 9:31 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:33:59 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
 

Some how i find the Washington Post slip up as lacking
credibility because in the last few Hundred thousans years we
have had Ice Ages which forced humans to develope their social
skills even further.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_glaciation>
>
bliss-who is just a student of such things and unable to throw
scientific credentials around.

 You don't have to be a geologist to type "When was the last ice age?"
into Google and get the answer "roughly 26,000 to 19,000 years ago"
which of course is a lot less than "last few hundred thousands years".
 I've heard the figure 14000-16000 years which is roughly when mankind
first settled the western hemisphere over the Alaska-Siberia land
bridge.

14-16k years ago is when the ice retreated, and the current interglacial
began.
The current set of glacial and interglacial periods is know as the
Quaternary glaciation, and started about 2.6 million years ago.
pt