| > nope There are several uses of the term "ice age". > an ice age consists of alternating paired epochs 'glacial - interglacial' Yes. This is the correct geological time scale usage - a period when there is ice on the earth and a period that often includes glacial cycling - as I said above. > an ice age is when things are bad cold sea level drops and icing occurs ?? define "bad cold" .. and yes, again an ice age is when there is ice on the earth, whether ice strictly limited to the poles or ice that almost reaches the equator - these are both examples of ice on the earth that occurs during an ice age. > we are now living in an interglacial epoch that began 11.700 years ago Yes - and one that was due to end with a greater cooling and more glaciers - this is not what you claimed in your comment above. Instead of this current interglacial period coming to an end it will now be extended with warmer periods caused by the extra insulation added by human activity in the last century. This is what is called AGW .. that specific component of additional trapped radiant heat energy caused by human added insulation to the atmosphere. This is readily tracked in various atmospheric fas libraries that have existed since the early Cold War .. and by other proxy means, not to mention looking at the by product of a centuries worth of FF extraction by products or with more recent sat constellations that track gases. Study more, learn more, work harder to sound less ignorant. The "Little Ice Age" was more localised to European cells than truly global and it's something bandied about in denier blogs that never truly get into the actual larger picture and global thermodynamics. |