Ice Age on Earth is Far

In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the high emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere indicate that the next ice age on Earth will not start at least in the next 1,500 years.
Concentration of gas that becomes a scapegoat for global warming record highs in 2010 and it will continue to be present in the atmosphere for decades to come. Even according to the UN, the gas will still be there even if we stopped burning at this time.

As is known, the Ice Age was a period in which the temperature decreased and the surface of the earth's atmosphere for the long term. He has caused the increase in polar ice sheets and glaciers. Earth itself has undergone at least 5 times zman ice. Among the five ice ages, there is a cycle in which the ice thickened and thinned.

Currently, the Earth was in the interglacial period, or interval between ice ages or warm periods are lasting for 10 thousand to 15 thousand years. "From the analysis, the results indicate that the end of the interglacial period will occur within the next 1,500 years on condition the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is not more than 240 ppmv," the report said.

Quoted by Reuters, January 10, 2012, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is reached 390 parts per million by volume (ppmv). "At this level, the addition of the ice volume is not possible," said the study authors.

In their study, researchers from Cambridge University, University College London, University of Florida, and University of Bergen, Norway analyzed samples of rocks and variations that occur in Earth orbit.
Cause of the ice age itself can not yet fully understood. But concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, changing the Earth's orbit around the Sun, as well as the movement of tectonic plates is expected to contribute to the rise time of the freezing cold.

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