Coldest winter in 100 years on its way!

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I would not worry too much about a severe ice age, after all, we are in an ice age at the moment. An ice age is any period in time where there is continuous ice at sea level - as there is at the north and south poles.

The 12000 cycle of heating and cooling only leads to small drops in temperature, nothing that would result in the UK being covered in glaciers. Although 12000 years ago, the UK was covered in glaciers mostly, this was down to a different heating / cooling pattern, a one that has a cycle of around 60,000 years warmer weather and around 100,000 years cold.

These are not the only two cycles that exist of global warming and cooling, that is why it is difficult to say with any certainty that man is having the effect on climate that has been claimed.