If there is ice age then there will be warm age too. Is this true or not ?

Question

If there is ice age then there will be warm age too. Is this true or not ?

Answer 1

i dont really know but i have to look at that very good and interesting question.

Answer 2

Ice Ages consisting of glacial and interglacial cycles had long been theorized. (Technically, Earth is still in an ice age because Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets still exist, but are currently in a warmer interglacial period.) Firm evidence of an Ice Age consisting of warm and cool cycles and occurring over the past few million years finally came during the late 1960's and early 1970's in the form of sea sediment cores.  

The beginning and end of glacial periods (Ice Ages) are thought to be related to the Milankovitch cycles or small "wobbles" in Earth's orbit and axis tilt. Small wobbles and tilting of earth's axis changes the amount of solar radiation received at different latitudes in different seasons, and they can now be calculated with astronomical precision. There is still some discussion about how exactly this starts and ends ice ages, but many studies suggest that the amount of summer sunshine on northern continents is crucial: if it drops below a critical value, snow from the past winter does not melt away in summer and an ice sheet starts to grow as more and more snow accumulates. Climate model simulations confirm that an Ice Age can indeed be started in this way, while simple conceptual models have been used to successfully ‘hindcast’ the onset of past glaciations based on the orbital changes

The orbit of Earth will eventually wobble again and a glacial ice age will begin; this should start to occur in approximately 10,000- 15,000 years or so.

Answer 3

yes the earth goes through warm and cool stages. Nothing is wrong with it being warm id much rather have it a little hotter than it is now instead of going into an ice age

Answer 4

Yep that's part of the whole global climate cycle. We have Ice Ages every 10-15 thousand years followed by periods of GASP

"Global Warming" which are then followed again by periods of cooling. That's how it's been working for the last few million years or so.

Answer 5

Benjamin almost got it right.  We are in an ice age but the ice age isn't defined by the earth still having ice.  It may very well be that during some of the interglacial periods, ice completely melted.  In any event Bob's link shows the evidence.  Bob just doesn't know how to interpret it in my opinion.  He looks at the top graph and sees what he wants to see.  The better graph to see different periods and where we are right now is lower in the page.

Answer 6

We're in a warm age now. The temperature may still not be at the highest level, but at least we aren't neck deep in ice.

Answer 7

Yes the global temperature fluctuates for cold to warm on three interacting cycles. The cycles are basically caused by the long term changes in the earths orbit and rotation, and they run at 21000, 41000 and 100000 years. We know this from studying and dating layers on the ocean floor and in the ice caps. We are currently in a warm age incidentally, and we are making it much warmer by greenhouse gas emissions

Answer 8

True.  But we had reached the top of the natural warm age, and reached the "interglacial" state.   And then, when we were in that level state, we pushed things up farther, very fast.

This graph shows it nicely.  We had warmed up all the way from the previous ice age (lefthand steep line), and were pretty stable (the slight cooling is not that important).  Then we started emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases.  The line of the graph on the right hand edge is going straight up.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

Answer 9

Why not. They're both examples of when the 'delicate balance' of the earth was toppled.