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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS t1_j9xgmtp wrote

Reply to comment by Due_Platypus_3913 in TIL scientists believe people started wearing clothes between 83k and 170k years ago because that's when clothing lice diverged from head lice. by cwood1973

We’re still living in an ice age right now.

Ice Age doesn’t mean eternal winter, it just means the earth’s temperatures have dropped below average for a long period of time, allowing for glacial sheets to form. A difference of 4 degrees C can be an iced age.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-coldest-earths-ever-been

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SkriVanTek t1_j9xx2zi wrote

iirc ice age is a period with ice covered poles

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_corleone_x t1_j9xlak8 wrote

TIL that's what Ice Age means

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laprawnicon t1_j9xr18l wrote

Thats not right either, the only requirement is the existence of polar ice caps, or significant glaciation and ice sheets. Similar but not the same

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