Predicting Next Ice Age

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The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it

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A pattern of encroaching and retreating ice sheets during and between ice ages has been shown to match certain orbital parameters of Earth around the sun.

The pattern is so reproducible that we were able to make an accurate prediction of when each interglacial period of the past million years or so would occur and how long each would last.

However, the long-term effects of human-made climate change could prevent the next ice age from ever happening.

Scientists predict that the next ice age would ordinarily take place in 10,000 years' time .

But the effects of human-made climate change will be so long-lasting that they could prevent it happening.

The predictability of the pattern that Barker 's team found allows them to generate a baseline of how Earth 's long-term climate would unfold over the next two decades .

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