Anthropogenic Climate Change Stopped the current Ice Age by about 1960. Really!

Amazing stuff! Hard to believe! Humans stopped the ongoing ice age! What kind of science is climatology?

You may also propose The Beatles and Beatlemania did it! 

"Highlights

• Researchers found evidence that the last remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began growing again about 2,000 years ago, potentially marking the start of a new glacial period.
• The Barnes Ice Cap continued expanding until around 1960, when rising temperatures caused it to retreat.
• By dating vegetation preserved beneath the ice, scientists reconstructed when the ice sheet shrank, began expanding again and eventually reversed course.
• The researchers argue that the first renewed growth of an ice sheet may mark the beginning of a glacial period, even thousands of years before continental ice sheets develop.

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From the editor's summary and abstract:

"Editor’s summary

Has anthropogenic warming prevented the next glacial cycle? Young et al. showed that it may have done just that ... They looked at the evolution of the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, Canada, the last remaining piece of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), which once covered much of North America and was the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets. After shrinking throughout much of the early- and mid-Holocene, the LIS began to grow again around 2000 years ago but then began shrinking once more around 1960. The authors attribute this reversal to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing, evidence that humans caused the termination of the next glaciation.

Abstract

During interglaciations, the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), which is the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, retreats to Arctic Canada, where it achieves a minimum configuration.

The reexpansion of the LIS following this minimum marks the start of the next glaciation.

Here, we show that the last remaining remnant of the most recent LIS, Barnes Ice Cap (Baffin Island, Canada), achieved its minimum interglacial dimensions after ~3.6 thousand years ago, before reexpanding ~2000 years ago, marking the onset of the next glaciation.

The new LIS reached maximum dimensions in ~1960 CE, after which anthropogenic summer warming resulted in a negative mass balance, ice margin recession, and the termination of the next glaciation.

The demise of the next glaciation, despite the ongoing decline in summer insolation, illustrates the influence of anomalous greenhouse gas forcing on climate."

Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age – State of the Planet

Late Holocene reexpansion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (open access)

Fig. 1. The last remnant of the LIS.

Fig. 3. The Common Era.