Meet The New Ice Age, Same As The Old Ice Age

Issues & Insights ^ | 18 Nov, 2025 | I & I Editorial Board

[MtnClimber]

Before the global warming catastrophists held sway in our politics and in the media, we were warned that another ice age was in our near future. But that prediction was overwhelmed by fearmongers who have been telling us for decades that we’re burning our world with greenhouse gas emissions. Now we’re hearing again that the big freeze is coming. What do we do with this new information?

Best just to ignore it, since predicting the future climate based on human activity is a narcissistic folly.

In 1970, University of California, Davis ecologist Kenneth Watt pulled the alarm handle. Our planet, he said, “has been chilling sharply for about 20 years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

Didn’t happen. Instead, climate activists have been promising an overheated future. In a 1988 Senate hearing, James Hansen claimed “the greenhouse effect is here.” We have since been inundated by predictions that man’s combustion of fossil fuels was not just going to roast Earth, it would cause more frequent and more damaging storms, calamitous droughts, overflowing rains, the wildest of wildfires and life-threatening sea level rises, to name a few of the end-is-near predictions.

The existential threat is always just around the bend where we can’t see it but we just know it’s there. Convincing you of that, is what the green left has always done to accrete power, wealth and influence to itself.

And yet, despite this, humanity has plugged on. But now a new threat has emerged. Carbon dioxide might be a factor in turning “warming events into ice ages,” thus saith a report recently published in Science.

Or maybe it’s not. It’s too soon to tell. And it’s likely that it will always be too soon to tell, since contrary to the left-leaning media’s take, most climate warming science is hotly debated and therefore not at all certain.

In any event, let’s not confuse this report with one that, according to the New York Post, also floats the idea that a new ice age is coming, in this case because “the Gulf Stream is near collapse.”

Reminder: This is just a couple of weeks after influential arch-global warmist and multi-billionaire Bill Gates announced a change of heart about climate change, saying that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”

Whatever the supposed state of the climate is, no matter what dangerous trends have allegedly been identified, we suggest that everyone should take the new information and do … nothing. Because that’s roughly what it’s worth.

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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange

[MtnClimber]

When in danger.

Or in doubt.

Run in circles.

Scream and shout.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

One day, there will be another Ice Age and when it happens, God help us. It will be bad. But it will occur because the planet’s natural cycles. Hopefully after I’m long dead.

[dfwgator]

The Sun’s zoomin’ in!

[one guy in new jersey]

shake it up baby now

[dfwgator]

Yo, VIP, let’s kick it. Ice, Ice, baby!

[Telepathic Intruder]

CO2 levels are actually low compared to early eras, such as the time of the dinosaurs when it was 5-6 times higher. Plant life thrived then more than now, and so did animal life as a result. The greatest threat to life on earth comes when CO2 levels are too low. About a billion years ago the earth was a snowball and all life almost went extinct because of it. Only about 1% survived. So which is the greater threat?

[Sicon]

most climate warming science

There is no "science" there.

[AZJeep]

Despite what Greta keeps telling us, we cannot control weather or climate.
We just need to adjust!

[airborne]

How can it be getting colder when we're getting closer to the sun?

(extreme sarcasm)

[TonyM]

So the coming ice age should cancel out global warming and vice versa so the climate should be steady and moderate. I knew Mother Nature would fix the problem.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes the tipping point is always just over the horizon, but nothing ever tips.

[Tell It Right]

One day, there will be another Ice Age and when it happens, God help us. It will be bad. But it will occur because the planet’s natural cycles. Hopefully after I’m long dead.

IMHO, we have probably 2 to 4 centuries of the Modern Warm Period left. The current one has been going on since mid 19th century (call it 2 centuries). And the prior ones going back to Moses each lasted 4 to 6 centuries.

The warming and cooling periods I'm talking about aren't technically "ice ages" (I hate the cooling period from AD 1300 to 1800's being called the "Little Ice Age"). But those cooling periods were horrible times to live in (lower crop yields, less predictable rain patterns, more deaths by plague). And we have historical accounts of people with written language (I repeat myself) to help us understand exactly how bad those cooling periods were (unlike the cool phases of the glacials and real ice ages).

If you expand out further you get into glacial cycles that happen every 80K to 200K years (see graph below). We're currently in the Modern Warm Period (right part of graph above) of the Holocene glacial (extreme right part of graph below).

If you expand out further you get into true ice ages that happen every 100 million years each (graph below). We're technically in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age (the term "ice age" means the entire 100 million year cycle, not just the cold phase).

[Tell It Right]

Article: most climate warming science

FReeper Sicon: There is no "science" there.

I respectfully disagree. There's plenty of political science there.

[Disambiguator]

Ww just need to adjust (the thermostat).

[Disambiguator]

Ww = we

[AZJeep]

Yes, and move uphill, and north if the seas rise
There would be a lot of good real estate in Antarctica and northern Canada/Siberia.
Or move down south, if the glaciers cover half of the Earth.
In that case, there would be also lots of land available because the seas will recede. E.g. Florida will double in size!

Life on the Earth always survived and always adjusted to whatever climate God send us.
Anything else is an excercise in futility!

[Disambiguator]

I live at about 2800’ elevation (and several hundred miles inland), so I’m not concerned about sea levels rising or tsunamis.

[AZJeep]

There is not that much ice on the Earth.
If you melt ALL ice on the Earth, the sea will rise around 200ft.
So you are save, and so am I, 1200 ft elevation, and most of the USA.
Some friend bought house on the 190 ft elevation. He hopes it will became seashore property soon!😂