We’d Be Entering an Ice Age Right Now if Climate Change Hadn’t Terminated It, Study Suggests
1st November 2026
Actually, the next of these ice ages may have already begun about 2,000 years ago, only to be cut short by human-driven climate change, a new study published in the journal Science suggests.
“It was just getting started, everything was normal, the next glaciation was about to happen – and yet it stopped,” says Nicolás Young, a geochemist at Columbia University and the study’s first author.