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Thanks neverdem.Until about 1.2 million years ago, ice ages in the Northern Hemisphere occurred about every 40,000 years, says Jerry F. McManus, a paleoclimatologist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. But for the past 500,000 years or so, ice ages have occurred, on average, only once every 100,000 years, he notes.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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So if the old time line was correct we’d be due for a new ice age at any point, with the new one we would have over 60,000 years to wait.