When did the ice start to melt in the last ice age?

Answer 1

ANSWER: It was about 15 thousand yeas ago, but tough to nail down. There was little ice left by 10,000 ago when the last people were able to cross the Bering Strait from Russia to Alaska. Ice ages forced intelligence to develop more, in that the dumb ones died and the smart ones (that could adapt), lived and propagated. We are still coming out of an ice age, which is why it is slightly warming, but sooner than later it will cool again and wipe out most life unless you are by the equator. ----

Answer 2

At least decades (tens of years) to show any significant change, and centuries (hundreds of years) when precipitation and temperature changes stop them from building up as fast as they melt.

One glacier in Washington state, the White Chuck glacier, receded 1.2 miles in a period of 33 years, and lost half of its area in 47 years.

Answer 3

The last ice age, known as the Pleistocene epoch, began about 2.6 million years ago and ended around 11,700 years ago. The ice started to melt gradually at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, when the Earth's climate began to warm, leading to the retreat of glaciers and the transition to the current interglacial period known as the Holocene epoch.

Answer 4

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It took the Ice Sheets covering Britain about 2,000 years to recede completely.

Answer 5

Much of it, as far South as the Thames or thereabouts.