What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze?

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Things were looking up for Earth about 12,800 years ago. The last Ice Age was coming to an end, mammoths and other large mammals romped around North America, and humans were beginning to settle down and cultivate wild plants. Then, suddenly, the planet plunged into a deep freeze, returning to near-glacial temperatures for more than a millennium before getting warm again. The mammoths disappeared at about the same time, as did a major Native American culture that thrived on hunting them. A persistent band of researchers has blamed this apparent disaster on the impact of a comet or asteroid, but a new study concludes that the real explanation for the chill, at least, may lie strictly with Earth-bound events."

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Re:Global Warming, of course.

[bobbied]

Er.. I mean Climate Disruption.. yeah, that's it.

I just refer to it as "Global Warming (or Name du joure)" now. They've had to change the name so often in their attempts to keep getting reactions from the sheep that I'm loosing track of what it's been called. Maybe if they start getting the dire predictions right..... Like having more droughts, floods, tornadoes or something....

Sort of like communist, liberal, progressive, democrat etc.. (Yes, I know I repeat myself.. ) (grin)