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Subject: Has another ice age started? Is global warming holding it at bay

Date: Sun Apr 13 19:51:51 1997
Posted by: Ben Savage
Grade level: 7-9
School/Organization: Smith Hill High School
City: Bulli State/Province: New South Wales
Country: Australia
Area of science: Earth Sciences
Message ID: 860979111.Es
Message:
Has another ice age started? Is global warming  holding it at bay
I read about an ice fair on the river Themes in London a 150 years 
ago, around about the time of the beginning of the industrial 
revolution where lots of CO2 was put into the atmosphere. The river 
was solid ice. 
There has only been more greenhouse gasses put into the air but the 
temprature doesn't seem to have really risen.  Is it an indication
that an Ice Age started quite a while back but has been held off by 
pollution?  Also How long does it take an ice age to start?

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