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. 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.

2. Adam Brumm:

   They must have done so using relatively sophisticated watercraft of some kind, as there were no land bridges between the islands, even during the glacial peaks of the last ice age, when global sea levels were up to 140 meters( 459 feet) lower than they are today.

3. Doug Biesecker:

   It's a very complicated issue, does the sun have a role in our variable climate? Yes. Is the dominant role? No. Even the concept of the sun being responsible for Europe's mini ice age -- it's not hard-and-fast true.

4. Lisa Westcott:

   Words can't quite capture the thrill of seeing a mammoth tusk still in the ground, or the feeling of standing in the middle of a site that has the potential to change how we see our closest human relatives and the Ice Age megafauna they shared their world with.

5. 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.