[muawiyah]

I think that's 14,000 ~ you go back 40,000 years and that's BEFORE the actual glacial maximum.

The Ice Age ordinarily lasts about 100,000 years and earlier lasted about 40,000 years. The interglacials last 10,000 years +. On the other hand, the glacial periods actually have warm periods called INTERSTADIALS that last less than 10,000 years.

They can occur at any time, even at the end, or the beginning of a cycle. We are currently about 5,000 years overdue for a return to ICE AGE conditions ~ which could mean that we may be in an interstadial at the beginning of a glacial period.

Within any given INTERSTADIAL there can be periods of glacial advance much as the problem in INTERGLACIALS where you can have "little ice ages".

The suggestion is, of course, that we live next to a variable star.

[TigersEye]

You are right that the interglacial period we are in began 14,000 years ago. But it would be more accurate to say that sea levels began to rise about 19k-20k years ago.

On a bigger time scale it becomes apparent that drastic sea level changes, over a good deal of time, are regular and at present we aren't setting any records either high or low.

[TigersEye]

A map of global temps over the last 2,500 years is very telling too.

We aren't setting any high or low records on temps either.