Global warming to disrupt natural cycle of ice ages

Q.  Global warming disrupts the natural cycle of the ice ages and contributes to delay of the next big freeze till ___________ years from now.
- Published on 15 Jan 16

a. 100,000
b. 200,000
c. 300,000
d. 250,000

ANSWER: 100,000
 
Global warming is going to disrupt a natural cycle of ice ages and contribute to delaying the onset of the next big freeze till 100,000 years from the present times. Within the past million years, world has close to 10 ice ages before reaching warmer conditions like current times. In the last Ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, ice sheets blanketed Canada, northern Europe and Siberia. Humanity has become the force in shaping the geology of the planet.

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