When did historians predict there would be the next ice age?
It has been believed that every 11,000 years and ice age would occur [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4081541.stm], but we are now in year 11,500 since the last one, and new evidence points to another ice age occuring somewhere in the vicinity of 15,000 years in the future: — The next ice age is more than 15,000 years away, according to evidence from an Antarctic ice core, the deepest and oldest ever extracted. The core gives us a 740,000-year record of the planet’s climate, including the past eight ice ages, and interglacials, the periods in between. A consortium of European researchers published its study in the latest issue of the journal Nature. The scientists endured temperatures as low as minus 40ºC to drill the sample at a site so remote that the nearest research outpost was 1000 kilometers away by tractor across the white wilderness. The core was more than three kilometres long and calculated by isotope measurement to be 740,000 years old at its farthest end. The core giv
