Comments by "sandgrownun66" (@sandgrownun66) on "The Climate Show with Tom Heap" video.

Where are those warmer winters we were supposed to get due to Global Warming?
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@steve-r-collier It's not just the sun which affects the Earth's climate. Geological processes also do, and in a much more profound way, than mere humans could ever do.
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@steve-r-collier We are currently in the Pleistocene Ice Age. It has been going on since about 2.5 million years ago (and some think that it's actually part of an even longer ice age that started as many as 40 million years ago). But Earth's climate doesn't stay cold during the entire ice age. The curious thing about ice ages is that the temperature of Earth's atmosphere doesn't stay cold the entire time. Instead, the climate flip-flops between what scientists call "glacial periods" and "interglacial periods." Glacial periods last tens of thousands of years. Temperatures are much colder, and ice covers more of the planet. On the other hand, interglacial periods last only a few thousand years and the climate conditions are similar to those on Earth today. We are in an interglacial period right now. It began at the end of the last glacial period, about 10,000 years ago.
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