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Posted Wed Dec 31 2008: from Politiken.dk:
Danish Arctic research dates Ice Age: "so sudden that it is as if a button was pressed" http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1230734764
 The extensive scientific study shows that it was precisely 11,711 years ago -- and not the indeterminate figure of 'some' 11,000 years ago -- that the ice withdrew, allowing humans and animals free reign. ... "Our new, extremely detailed data from the examination of the ice cores shows that in the transition from the ice age to our current warm, interglacial period the climate shift is so sudden that it is as if a button was pressed", explains ice core researcher Jorgen Peder Steffensen, Centre for Ice and Climate at NBI at the University of Copenhagen.
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