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To: dayglored
said, "We're actually coming out of an Ice Age"

No we are not. The Quaternary ice age has at least 2 million years before we leave our present ice age.

If they global warming people where right they should be happy to extend our interglacial longer then it naturally should be. I personally WISH they were right. Our interglacial optimum is coming to and end soon geographically speaking.

I understand you meant to say, "mini-ice age." It is a term that really should be eliminated from the English language. Which really is slight change in temperatures in our interglacial period.

10 posted on 02/08/2015 11:07:37 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn
> I understand you meant to say, "mini-ice age."

Yep, more or less, and I agree that the term is largely nonsense. But it is somewhat more effective in conversation than merely waving my hands and saying "Look, any trend less than about 10,000 years long is just noise in the overall patterns", since most people have trouble wrapping their minds around long periods like 10,000 years, much less a million or more years. Hell, most people have trouble with 500 years. :)

14 posted on 02/09/2015 5:59:33 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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