• Question: are we in an icige

    Asked by mattyedge08 to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 27 Apr 2012.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 27 Apr 2012:

      Hi mattyedge08! I’m not sure about the answer to this, because I’m not a geologist or geographer, but I think the answer is that ice ages are cycles of activity, and we’re at the end of one of those cycles at the moment, which started nearly 3 million years ago. We’re currently in what’s called an ‘interglacial period’, which means that we’re in an interval of warmer-than-average temperatures. Some scientists think that the next glacial period (in which everything gets colder) will probably happen in about 50,000 years.

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