Was Anywhere Warm During the Ice Age?

Tierney is lead author of a paper published today in Nature that found that the average global temperature of the ice age was 6 degrees Celsius (11 F) cooler than today.

What was the temp during the ice age?

The Last Glacial Maximum ended around 19,000 years ago. Scientists have predicted that the global ice age temperature was around 46 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 degrees Celsius), on average. However, the polar regions were far colder, around 25 degrees Fahrenheit (14 degree Celsius) colder than the global average.

Did anything live during the ice age?

During the past 200,000 years, homo sapiens have survived two ice ages. ... While this fact shows humans have withstood extreme temperature changes in the past, humans have never seen anything like what is occurring now.