Canada Study: Warming May Have Halted a New Ice Age

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Euronews reports on Canadian research suggesting human-driven climate change may have stopped the start of a new cold period. Researchers found that Barnes Ice Cap, spanning about 6,000 square kilometres on Baffin Island, began expanding around 2,000 years ago and continued growing until about 1960. The team used carbon-14 dating of plants near the glacier edge to track the ice's advance, while Canadian summers have warmed by about 2.1 degrees Celsius since. The report covers the findings, the 1961 turning point and what researchers say the results mean.  Disclosure: This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using AI-assisted tools.

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00:00Climate change may have stopped the start of a new ice age, according to a study reported by

00:05Euronews. Researchers from Canada studied the Barnes ice cap on Baffin Island, which covers

00:10about 6,000 square kilometers. They found the ice was still expanding around 2,000 years ago.

00:16It kept growing until about 1960. The team used carbon-14 dating of plants near the glacier edge

00:22to track how the ice advanced. The Laurentide ice sheet reached its minimum size about 3,000 years

00:28ago and then began to regrow. Researchers say that regrowth marks the start of a cold period.

00:34Then the summer of 1961 was among the hottest of the 20th century. Canadian summers have since

00:41warmed by about 2.1 degrees Celsius. The north is warming roughly three times faster than the

00:46global average. Disclosure. This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced

00:51using AI-assisted tools.

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