Human CO2 emissions set to delay next Ice Age

HUMAN carbon dioxide emissions will delay the onset of the next Ice Age.

According to research published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the next Ice Age should begin within the next 1,500 years but will be put off because of high human-caused emissions.

“At current levels of CO2, even if emissions stopped now, we’d probably have a long interglacial duration determined by whatever long-term processes could kick in and bring [atmospheric] CO2 down,” said Luke Skinner of Cambridge University.