JLowe wrote:
"nope, here's an article that says from 1300 to 1800:"
Read the article. If you can't catch the error in what you posted you've no business sitting for an advanced degree.
The error is that you are focusing on a single event.
Now were that event to meeting the criteria you had previously set up you would be correct. But it isn't. I could, with equal value, point to the signing of the US Declaration of Independence in 1776. But that event too would be irrelevant.
Go back to your original statement: "glaciers have been in retreat the last 500 years." and consider that it is just possible that the end of the Little Ice Age is irrelevant to when they started retreating.
Perhaps viewing a commercial film "An Inconvenient Truth" might help your focus. Al Gore, at least, got it right.
