So when is the ice age that we are in going to end????

Question

Lets try this again this link is a reference to what an ice age is no fancy words or charts or graghs:
http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/i/ic/ice_age_1.html
seeing as I tried this once lets try this again I pulled the last one because it just wasn't working. My thoughts take them leave what ever but if all the ice does melt how would it be the end of the world the dino's didn't have ice untill Antrica went south on them, also in all reality the earth is heating up about a degree every 100 years or so, now I know because of humans the earth is in theory going to heat up fast how fast who knows with all this said when will the current ice age end or are we doomed to be in this one forever?????????

We are still in an ice age what the other scientist are talking about are major ice ages :), because going by the true facts we are still in an ice age no matter what scientist or liberals have to say....:)

Answer 1

Like I've said before, it is just ignorant to expect the climate not to change. Everything in nature is constantly changing and evolving. Different species populate the earth over different time periods. Humans have not been here forever and we will not last forever. What impact we have made through our industrialization over the past 150 or so years has little impact on the big picture. The purpose of preserving our resources is only so we can continue to live in our accustomed manner for as long as possible, not so we can stop "global warming." People who cry and scream that we have doomed the planet have no perspective.

Bob, what are you smoking? Heat isn't going to destroy the earth. You're confusing destroying the earth with destroying the biosphere. The earth could be thousands of degrees and still be a piece of rock floating in space. And technically, we are in an ice age. Who knows, if there is any truth this anthropogenic global warming thing, it might actually keep us in the interglacial period; therefore it would be a good thing for the human species.

Answer 2

Mary, I know reading comprehension can be difficult but perhaps you should try again. The article that is linked to says "Glaciologically, ice age is often used to mean a period of ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition WE ARE STILL IN AN ICE AGE."

It says that colloquially, over the last 4Myr it refers to periods of large glaciation. COLLOQUIALLY. That means in ordinary or informal speech "ice age" refers to periods of large glaciation. However, in formal or scientific terms, WE ARE STILL IN AN ICE AGE.

Bob, the concept of interglacial periods is really not that difficult to understand. An interglacial is a period of glacial retreat within an ice age. We are now in an interglacial period of an ice age. See the attached link. It shows that over the last billion years there have been 4 ice age periods. The latest ice age has been from the late Neogene to Quaternary periods (the last 4 million years to present.).

Answer 3

You might try researching this on a science site, rather than this sort. Even so, your site points out what is important: like global warming, cyclic ice ages are a theory. I believe in them, but obviously the theory depends on everything else continuing as it has. In other words, not giant meteor hitting the earth, no megavolcano, and no global warming. Under those conditions, I consider the theory plausible

"The theory of ice ages was first published by Louis Agassiz in his book Étude sur les glaciers of 1840 and was based on observations made in Switzerland."

http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/i/ic/ice_age_1.html

Answer 4

We're not in an ice age, we're in what should be a stable interglacial period. Look at the times in the article you cite. The average interglacial period is about 50,000 years, and the very shortest 30,000. We've been in this interglacial for 15,000 years, so we have a long way to go before the next ice age.

The problem with even a few degrees of warming (for rich countries with plenty of food) is that the loss from damage to agriculture and the damage to due to coastal flooding, will cause severe economic problems. The 1930s will look like good times.

When it got this warm thousands of years ago, animals could simply wander somewhere else. Given the modern world it will cost us a fortune to do that, even neglecting the problems with people of one country swarming into another.

Answer 5

We aren't in an ice age. The most recent ice age ended about 10,000 years ago.

There was a "little ice age" between the 16th and 19th centuries but this was limited to parts of Europe and North America-- not global.

I think you should do some fact checking on your other claims. I would research them for you but I can't understand your poor grammar.

Answer 6

Third sentence in the link you provided:

"More colloquially, and of the last 4 Myr, ice age is used to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the North American and European continents: in this sense, the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago."

Did you even read what you are providing as evidence?

Dope.

Answer 7

You think this is the ice age? You aint seen nothing yet. I roughly 18000 years, another one is scheduled similar to the last one. But after that, no more. Within the next 200 000 years, it will star heating up and up and up as the sun's temperature increases. Eventually this will destroy Earth.