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Originally Posted by John Mercier

Actually MAN existed prior to and during the last glacial period.

There are very basic reasons for climate study, farmers and agriculturist use them to determine the zones and variants within the precipitation rates.
Engineers also use them for construction and other projects. Though the change is slow... longer term planning has a need for study. Originally, a lot of the global data was collected during WWII for increased accuracy in longer term weather prediction. But satellites now collect much of the data, as ground stations have been show to attributing local factors. For us locally, it is more accuracy than the older Farmer's Almanacs... which I think currently employ some of that data in their forecasting. Should summers become wetter and cooler... it will change how some local businesses will operate over the next several decades should they survive.

That's not what GarySanFran wrote, but both are correct.

Little life existed following a really deep freeze.

"Even at the equator – the warmest place on Earth – the average temperature was a frigid -20°C, equivalent to modern-day Antarctica. Most life was wiped out, and the creatures that did survive huddled in small pockets of open water, where hot springs continued to bubble up.

"This was "Snowball Earth" – a deep freeze that began around 715 million years ago and held Earth in its icy grip for a good 120 million years. "There are no other comparable glacial periods on Earth. This one was really quite catastrophic," says Graham Shields of University College London in the UK."
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...s%20on%20Earth.