Ice doom of DOOM!

[james_davis_nicoll]

The previous ice age lasted some 110,000 years and ended about 11,000 years ago. In other words, some 4,000 generations of humans knew of nothing but harsh winds and eternal snows. The apparently "normal'' periods between ice ages, like the present one, have averaged between 8,000 and 12,000 years. In short, the next ice age is overdue. The key question is when it will come. Can space be colonised by a sufficiently large population so that, when the next ice age strikes, it will not threaten the survival of the race?

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[calcinations.livejournal.com]

The actual climate scientists, unlike those in the GWPF, reckoned that we should have been sliding into one that would be fully blown in 10k years. However with the amount of CO2 and other gases now in and expected to be in the atmosphere, that is now put off for many tens of thousands of years more, I can't recall exactly, but in the 50 to 100k years range.