Editing Ice age (section)

===Uplift of the Tibetan plateau===
[[Matthias Kuhle]]'s geological theory of Ice Age development was suggested by the existence of an ice sheet covering the [[Tibetan Plateau]] during the Ice Ages ([[Last Glacial Maximum]]?). According to Kuhle, the plate-tectonic uplift of Tibet past the snow-line has led to a surface of c. 2,400,000 square kilometres (930,000 sq mi) changing from bare land to ice with a 70% greater [[albedo]]. The reflection of energy into space resulted in a global cooling, triggering the [[Pleistocene]] Ice Age. Because this highland is at a subtropical latitude, with four to five times the insolation of high-latitude areas, what would be Earth's strongest heating surface has turned into a cooling surface.

Kuhle explains the [[interglacial]] periods by the 100,000-year cycle of radiation changes due to variations in Earth's orbit. This comparatively insignificant warming, when combined with the lowering of the Nordic inland ice areas and Tibet due to the weight of the superimposed ice-load, has led to the repeated complete thawing of the inland ice areas.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kuhle, Matthias |title=The Pleistocene Glaciation of Tibet and the Onset of Ice Ages — An Autocycle Hypothesis |journal=GeoJournal |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=581–595 |date=December 1988 |jstor=41144345|doi=10.1007/BF00209444 |bibcode=1988GeoJo..17..581K |s2cid=189891305 }}</ref><ref>2c (Quaternary Glaciation — Extent and Chronology, Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica{{cite book |author=Kuhle, M. |chapter=The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and LGM) ice cover in High and Central Asia |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xpIEPH7RW4C&pg=PA175 |editor1=Ehlers, J. |editor2=Gibbard, P.L. |title=Quaternary Glaciations: South America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica |publisher=Elsevier |location=Amsterdam |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-444-51593-3 |pages=175–199 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xpIEPH7RW4C |series=Development in Quaternary Science: Quaternary Glaciations: Extent and Chronology Vol. 3}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Kuhle, M. |title=Reconstruction of an approximately complete Quaternary Tibetan inland glaciation between the Mt. Everest- and Cho Oyu Massifs and the Aksai Chin. A new glaciogeomorphological SE–NW diagonal profile through Tibet and its consequences for the glacial isostasy and Ice Age cycle |journal=GeoJournal |volume=47 |issue=1–2 |pages=3–276 |year=1999 |doi=10.1023/A:1007039510460|bibcode=1999GeoJo..47....3K |s2cid=128089823 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Kuhle, M. |chapter=Ice Age Development Theory |editor1=Singh, V.P. |editor2=Singh, P. |editor3=Haritashya, U.K. |title=Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers |publisher=Springer |year=2011 |pages=576–581}}</ref>