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.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACT New Zealand -] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Every 100,000 years, for the last half-million years, we have a brief warm period called an "interglacial".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The planet is in a warm "interglacial" period, which began 10,000 years ago with the end of the last Ice Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

This is known as the interglacial period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference

Pretty darn fast, just going by the last interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Romm: Antarctic Ice Loss Jumps 75% in One Year!] Reference

Last glacial/interglacial transition through to mid-Holocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

We ought, therefore, to have had a mild interglacial season.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

The Earth entered the present interglacial about 10,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Did Climate Scientists Flip Flop?] Reference

To assume that interglacial periods go on forever is a Utopian fantasy.    From Wordnik.com.  [warming-gate] Reference

Climatic changes in Europe during the last glacial/interglacial transition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

The rise and fall of temperatures gives rise to the ice age/interglacial cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » LEAKED MEMO: Coal Industry Coordinating Propaganda Blitz Attacking Global Warming Science] Reference

Less Antarctic ice has melted today than occurred during the last interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of fear]

Impressive that it could survive the climate shift from an ice age to an interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth’s Elder] Reference

The rise and fall of temperatures gives rise to the ice age/interglacial cycle. “.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » LEAKED MEMO: Coal Industry Coordinating Propaganda Blitz Attacking Global Warming Science] Reference

During the last interglacial, Europe, Eurasia, and North America were warmer than today.    From Wordnik.com.  [B. Prehistory and the Great Ice Age] Reference

Variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation during the last interglacial period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

Substantial contribution to sealevel rise during the last interglacial from the Greenland ice sheet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

These processes were followed by expansions of the forest during short and warmer interglacial periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valdivian temperate forests] Reference

We already know that sea levels were 21 meters higher just 400,000 years ago during an interglacial period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Schmitt on Global Warming - NASA Watch] Reference

The Holocene interglacial warm period has been going on for 11,000 years, already longer than any previous one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arctic Oil Rush] Reference

This covers several glaciations, so is relevant to present possibilities, since we are still in an interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Climatic conditions during interglacial periods are generally considered to be broadly comparable to present-day conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

interglacials are defined as warm periods when temperatures were at least as high as during the present Holocene interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

We are fortunate that our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly warm, interglacial climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [guelphs and ghibellines] Reference

Always summer on Earth now, the planet had entered an interglacial period with the help of man, more carbon dioxide in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Way Home]

The Earth is constrained within close limits of global temperature in each of two stable states; viz. glacial and interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Hemisphere such as characterized many of the mild interglacial epochs as long as the earth passed its perihelion point in Winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

In other words, when the Northern Hemisphere was in the grips of an ice age, the Southern Hemisphere would be in an interglacial.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Croll and the astronomical theory of climate change] Reference

Yet other scientists call these forecasts alarmist, and say rising temperatures are normal, because we're in an interglacial period.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005] Reference

Yet, other scientists call these forecasts alarmists and say rise in temperatures are normal because we are in an interglacial period.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference

Few of these oscillations are well documented, except for the last interglacial and glacial cycle, which began about 128,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [B. Prehistory and the Great Ice Age] Reference

Drift tribes can be referred to these warm interglacial epochs; in other words, that they were living in Europe during the Glacial Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

On longer timescales, glacial – interglacial oscillations shift enormous volumes of water among oceans and glaciers and permanent snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global material cycles] Reference

The earth has been warming for 12,000 years during our present interglacial cycle, and the sea level has risen 300 feet during this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The EPA Follows the Supreme Court in CO2 Ruling] Reference

Hence it follows that at the very time the Northern Hemisphere would enjoy a mild interglacial climate, universal Spring, so to speak, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Furthermore, somehow the idea was spread that the interglacial period was 10,000-12,000 years with the last one ending about that long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming] Reference