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• This concern developed a scientific gloss in recent decades, and it has been established that we are currently in an 'interglacial' - or warm - period between ice ages.
• These warm periods, called interglacial periods, appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate.
• Every 100,000 years, for the last half-million years, we have a brief warm period called an "interglacial"
• The planet is in a warm "interglacial" period, which began 10,000 years ago with the end of the last Ice Age.