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We're already in an ice age, and we have been for the last 1 million years. We're just in an interglacial period (for the past 12K years). We were always going
by chrisco255 5y ago
We're already in an ice age, and we have been for the last 1 million years. We're just in an interglacial period (for the past 12K years). We were always going to revert back to a glacial period.
The belief is that CO2 concentration would prevent that, by causing global warming. Otherwise, if we revert to a glacial period, that is currently status quo for planet earth:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Interglacial%20Cycles https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Inte...
- cs702 5y agoYes, we're in an interglacial period. You're absolutely right about that. The counter-intuitive prediction from this school of thought is that global warming would precipitate or accelerate glacial period within this ice age.