Administration’s New Climate Report: Next Ice Age ‘Has Now Been Delayed Indefinitely’

Ernest. The "Rabbit hole" as depicted in the Disney film Alice and Wonderland is really a good way of thinking about this crap as it comes to past.
Not to diminish your later part, concerning the deranged killer from the LAPD., Lord willing he shall soon be caught, alive or dead, the main stay of the post, is so far more criminal in some respects beyond what that poor bastard that turned bad.
Where as your painfully aware of control over the world by so many very dark souled people in power in so many venues of control.
Or even more sinister, know full well GW and AGW is total bullshit to contrive means to end up lining their pockets and or becoming nation and world leaders on a totally false pretense.
They in this respect. All are living a lie, that many of them through their training and conduct, cannot understand, to be a false hood, or through their ignorance of the sciences involved think they actually are representing a true condition.
Enough for me. Tis 2:12 EST. Time to hit the rack. Do have a blessed upcoming day.

The approximate 12,000 year duration for an inter-glacial period is a general average, if that. Some inter-glacial periods have lasted far longer.Although no one can say with any certainty, one of the likely patterns of Earth’s orbital mechanics occuring at preseent may match one of those eealrier long duration patterns for an inter-glacial period. If so, the current inter-glacial period could endure for another 50,000 years. Even so, there are warm and cool phases in the inter-glacial periods and the glacial periods. The Milankovitch cycles are variations of Earth’s orbital mechanics with cyclic periods measured in tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of years. The Milankovitch cycles are cyclic variatsuperimposed on the similarly short teerm glacial periods and inter-glacial periods of the ice age and non-ice age climates last tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years. Ice ages have been rare and abnormal in the Earth’s past experience. There have only been about five or six ice agees in the Earth’s 4.6 billion year or 4,500 million year history. We currently are living in an inter-glacial period for about the last 11,000 yearrs in an ongoing ice age that started about 20 million years ago. Only in the last 6 million years has there been an unusual number of more severe glacial periods which have sometimes caused the Arctic Sea to rremain covered by ice sheeets the year around. In most of the past ice ages in the last 550 million years, the Arcic Circle remained free of an ice cap and significant glacial uce sheets.

Milankovitch cycles have always occurred whether or not there were any ice aes or glacial ice sheets around to be influenced by the variations in the Earth’s orbital mechanics.

The entire last 2.5 million years have been an ICE AGE. There are recurring advances and retreats of glacial conditions within an ICE AGE.

There are two sorts of periods typified by milder climate ~ the interglacials and the interstadials. All interglacials are 10,000 years or more and all interstadials are less than 10,000 years.

Someone has probably computed and upper and lower bound for the glacial periods ~ my own is that if the ice forming on Baffin island reaches Chicago, that's a glacial. if the ice on Baffin island doesn't reach Chicago, that's not a glacial yet but it could be.

Currently the last glacial peak is computed to 22,000 years ago. Baffin island is currently not producing very much ice but you can tell it wants to ~ it's literally aching and crying out "MORE ICE" but the Atlantic Cyclones are in a period of decline and can't help. But that can change in a heartbeat.

The current interglacial starts about 20,000 years ago ~ unortunately until reently the start was computed back to the end of the Younger Dryass. At the moment the Younger Dryass is considered a Northern hemispheric phenomenon of short duration ~ more of a belch at the end of the glacial period, but nothing serious (unless you were a Clovis human or a Sabre Toothed Tiger or a Columbian or a Wooly Mamoth).

The top theory on the Younger Dryass is that it was initiated by nothing more than a comet hitting a residual ice sheet in Canada right on top one of the world's largest gold reservoirs. This is the reason for deposits of nanoparticle size gold being found all over the MidWest ~

What all of that means is that the last glacial period was over about 14,000 years ago and was revived for a short while about 12900 years ago.

Since this is such a recent event you find some articles doing the AD/BC thing and others telling you how far in the past it was. I prefer the YBP approach ~

With this being an interglacial firing up 14,000 years ago, and a standard interglacial being 10,000 years or more, we are 4,000 years overdue ~ or maybe even 5,000 years overdue depending on how we think of the glacial ice sheet melt rates ~ currently no one has a really good grip on what mass the Canadian ice sheet was 15,000 years ago ~ much of this is inferred from shoreline measurements and they give us an idea of how much ice it took to melt to raise the oceans. Problem is while this isgoing on Antarctica was going through its cycles and melting and refreezing at all sorts off different periods we can only guess at this time.

The smaller the Canadian sheet was the longer we've been in an interglacial ~ and the more troublesome that becomes because the ice isn't building up in the Northern hemisphere, although it is in the Southern hemisphere.

Some analysts have adopted the position that due to whatever we slipped from an interglacial to the first interstadial in the next period of glaciation so we may have a few thousand years to go, or none at all. They also interpret those longer interglacials some data suggests as being more of the same ~ not long interglacials but just a bunch of interstadials being misinterpreted as part of the nearest interglacial to them.

There is a shortage of evidence of glaciation between some of the interstadials but there is evidence that microscopic flora and fauna left behind shells telling us that there were periods of glaciation ~ maybe just puny ones like those we have at present.

One of the glaring differences worthy of note is the rarity of ice caps in the Arctic Circle during the planetary ice ages. The current ice age is the first time the Earth has seeen such an extensive glaciation of the Northern hemisphere since the Cryogenean. Why this has not been nore alaring in the scientific community is a bit odd, when you consider the potential consequences to the biosphere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15749757 you might want to read through this one ~

Conspicuous is the absence of the role played by the apparent 300 mile diamter impact crater adjacent to this mountain range suspected of dating from the Permian extinction event. It appears highly likely one of the most destructive asteroid impacts in the post late heavy bombardment period impacted on the Antarctic continent, caused the great Siberian Traps vulcanism as the result of the antipodal impact energy, and vaporized the terrestrial landscapeas across Antarctica and much of the entire Earth. For them not to mention the probable role of the suspected impact crater on the geomorphology marks their studies as beset by problems that should have perhaps not passed peere review.