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Is there going to be another ice age in the next 1,000 years?


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Probably not within 1,000 years, maybe within 10,000 years and almost certainly within 100,000 years. The trend has been more toward warming than cooling lately, but these things are unpredictable: there is some evidence that a sudden rapid warming may have preceded the last ice age.

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