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To: TigersEye
some say it's all an Ice Age as long as some ice remains on the polar caps

My gosh, we're in an Ice Age right now.

43 posted on 08/03/2008 11:30:10 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Obama "King of Kings and Lord of Lords")
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Yes, that is exactly what some say. I can appreciate that a distinction is being made between the modern climatic cycles and much more ancient ones where there were no ice caps. But it gets a little confusing. I grew up reading that an "Ice Age" was the period when glaciation was at it's peak and what is now called and "Intermediate Warming Period," as we are in now, was not an Ice Age. I don't recall any name for the warming period in articles about climate 20 or 30 years ago. It was just "not-Ice Age." lol

The way it's going if we get a thunderstorm that chills us off this afternoon I'm going to call it an Ice Age.

45 posted on 08/03/2008 11:54:31 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 ... Olympics for murdering regimes. ... Beijing '08)
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