• Question: Will there ever be another ice age while there are still humans

    Asked by The-legit-one! to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 19 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by MattNelson.
    • Photo: Sarah Harris

      Sarah Harris answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      This one’s up for debate – the earth goes through stages of glacial (icy) periods and interglacial (warm) periods – at the moment we’re in the interglacial period, so it makes sense that we’d move towards another ice age. It’s hard to tell when this would occur though, and we have a problem with Global warming and ice sheets melting, which doesn’t seem indicative of another ice age!

    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Not at the moment as the earth is warming up at present – could we survive an ice age? Not at the moment – but who knows whether in the future we could evolve to live in colder temperatures, or whether science can develop a way to allow us to live in extreme cold – heat efficient housing, travel etc

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