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Researchers say they when the next ice age will . Wikipedia says: "An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets, and alpine glaciers." The researchers are from Cardiff University in the UK. They that the next ice age should in 10,000 years from now. However, the scientists believe it could delayed because of human activity. A member of the research team climate change could the next ice age. She said global warming could it "very unlikely" that the next freeze will on time.

The scientists said glaciers in the North and South Poles will back the next ice age. Lead researcher Professor Stephen Barker what caused past ice ages to happen. His team at nearly one million years of climate data. They that there was a relationship between changes in the Earth's axis, global temperatures, and the size of Antarctica and the Arctic. When the amount of ice on the continental ice sheets was stable, ice ages at regular intervals. However, Professor Barker said less ice a longer gap between ice ages. He added: "Earth's climate an interconnected system of complex processes, all together to produce the changes we ."