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Originally Posted by Rochard
Aren't we still in a period of "ice age"?
Wikipedia says ", ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres" which is also defined as the "current ice age" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation).
It's going to get A LOT hotter. |
We are on a interglacial period, I don't know how to say it better. It's not ice age, but it's not total opposit of it either. Let's say that we live warm coolish period between ice ages. And yes, it can get hotter as well as colder.
And still, the dinosaurs didn't die because ice age ended as earth was a lot warmer then and as far as I know, there even wasn't polar ice. And you probably have read about the asteroid.