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."

Re:Global Warming, of course.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, about that.... Sorry, I left the fridge door open. My bad. Here, I'm turning up the heat to compensate.


God.

If Al Gore-like shamans lived back then...

[mi]

If Al Gore-like shamans lived back then, the insufficient fervor of the rival shamans in keeping the fires going all day and night would've been blamed for the freeze.

Anybody failing to keep their fire going would be shamed and punished — unless they paid tribute (to buy global freezing offset credits) to the right shaman, of course.

Re: Climate change is for pussies.

[O('_')O_Bush]

Good thing most of our food grows on ammonium nitrate and very little else.