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A looming ice age? Scientists find a striking pattern in Earth’s history.
A group of scientists think they can now predict when the next ice age could grip Earth, but don’t worry, it’s not for a very long time.
An ice age should begin in about 10,000 years, but its onset is most likely delayed due to man-made climate change, an international team of scientists found in their analysis published this week in Science.
Scientists have long known that small changes in how Earth orbits the sun influence glacial cycles over thousands of years. This analysis is the first time anyone has been able to determine which orbital characteristic has the most influence on the start and end of ice ages, according to a news release from the University of California at Santa Barbara. The team found that the changes in the Earth’s climate, from ice ages to warm periods like today called interglacial conditions, synced up to the orbital behavior. (snip)
“But such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years’ time is very unlikely to happen because human emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere have already diverted the climate from its natural course, with longer-term impacts into the future,” said study co-author Gregor Knorr, of the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.
