Synonyms for ice age
ice age

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1. ice age, glacial period, glacial epochnoun

   any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface

   "the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene"

   Synonyms:
   glacial period, glacial epoch

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1. Burt Flickinger:

   It's a broader issue. It's an acceleration of a retail ice age.

2. Mark Maslin:

   For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is... because of the genocide of millions of people.

3. Gavin Schmidt:

   What we’re predicting – if we were to burn all the fossil fuels that we can – it could get as warm, by the end of the century, as the Ice Age was cold.

4. Alexander Pryor:

   We found pieces of soft plant tissue typically found in edible roots or tubers, hinting at a plant food component in peoples' diet, these finds are important because they illustrate how our human ancestors adapted to survive the harsh environments of the last Ice Age by making use of the resources they found around them.

5. Love Dalén:

   I think one of the simplest explanations is that hunter-gatherers may have caught wolf pups, which is extremely easy to do, and kept them in captivity as sentinels against the large predators that roamed the landscapes of the last Ice Age - bears, cave lions, etc. as well as other dangerous mammals - mammoths, woolly rhinos, other humans.