The next ice age will return at some point in the future. And one thing is for sure, is nothing will stand it its path. Maybe next year or in 1,000 years, we don’t entirely know. But what we do know is that its all part of a dependable, predictable climate cycle our planet goes through every 10,000 – 15,000 approximately. Our current interglacial period has lasted 10,000 years (estimates vary).

An ‘Ice age’ or ‘glacial age – more precisely’, is a sustained period of reducing temperature of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. This results in the presence or growth of continental ice sheets along with polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. For a long-term ice age, individual periods of severe cold climate are called ‘glacial periods’, or more generally know as an ‘Ice Age’.

Some Scientists actually believe we could be temporarily preventing the Next Ice Age because of the current high CO2 levels, which is causing the greenhouse effect. Early in the 1970′s it was widely thought among some Groups that the earth was entering a new Global Cooling phase.

The Last Glacial Maximum occurred approximately 20,000 years ago, in which extensive ice sheets lay over large parts of the North American and Eurasian continents.

Have we lost sight on this, could we actually be entering a Global cooling phase – which is being masked by the short-term effect (last 100 years) cause by our output of CO2 levels?

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