[GraceG]

We are IN an ice age by definition because the earth has ice caps.

[BigEdLB]

[Huebolt]

One can see glacial striations on rock formations in Jacksboro TEXAS.

That far south...

[Gay State Conservative]

I've read that Greenland was named the way it was because at the time that name was attached it was,in fact,green.

[Wuli]

I just wish the reporters would get their terms straight.

An “inter-glacial” period is BETWEEN ice ages, which are also known as “glacial” periods due to stable or advancing glaciation.

We are not BOTH, in an “ice age” AND an inter-glacial period.

I believe we are at present in an “inter-glacial” period because glaciation is not advancing and it seems for way longer than the industrial age (and AGW “global warming”) has been retreating gradually, in fits and starts.

[Reily]

Great post!

[LegendHasIt]

Seems to me that AlGore has succeeded in his goal to stop Global Warming.

Snowing at my place here in south central New Mexico, as I type this.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Even if you use all caps, no one is listening.

[justa-hairyape]

Read this article for interesting info before the hairy apes take it down. They state that low CO2 caused some of the Icehouse and Snowball periods.

History of Ice

Basically for the first two thirds of the Quaternary, the repeating ice age cycle worked on a 41,000 year period. The last third of the Quaternary the cycle period was 100,000 years. Doing the math gives us about 50 interglacial periods when the surviving apes froze their cajones off.

[TigersEye]

We are IN an ice age by definition because the earth has ice caps.

That is correct.

[editor-surveyor]

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Massive BARF!

The Ice Age was the result of the hot ocean water that erupted from “the Great Deep” during the Genesis judgement.

Glaciation can only occur when the ocean is hot, just as drought occurs when it is cool. Only an extremely hot ocean can generate sufficient precipitation to build a glacier.

This is the 10,000 pound elephant in the laboratory of the warmists.
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[editor-surveyor]

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BTW, don’t be a Wikipedophile!
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[Eagles6]

Yep. If we want to be remembered by future generations we should figure out how to make life survivable north of Pittsburgh.

The last glaciation was about 20,000 yrs ago. Due for the next one right about...now.

Milankovich(sp) Cycles.

[Twinkie]

Last century, there were articles in magazines declaring
that an ICE AGE was on the way; and that New York City
would be frozen solid by the late 1900’s.

[Bookwoman]

I think the controversies arise due to an earth-centric view of climate. We have an elliptical orbit around the sun, and so there will be times when we are closer to it, and other times when we are farther away. Also, the sun changes. None of this happens in a static environment. Deal with it! There will always be climate change and we have to adjust to whatever we have to survive.