Research before you post.
Apparently, for you, "research before you post" means "read the wikipedia article," and "research" overrides "common sense." I made the mistake of assuming you had actually done research and wasted my time searching proquest for the real news articles and the peer reviewed journals I thought you used.
Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist).
I don't give a stuff what wikipedia says. I can walk outside and it's 65 degrees. If I were in Kabul right now, it would be 89 degrees. We might technically be in an ice age, but we aren't practically in one unless my house is encased in 120 foot deep ice flow, which it most certainly is not.
EDIT: Here, I found a review of the book wikipedia uses to cite the statement you're trying to use:
http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=46706x1411529r20&size=largestHere is an excerpt for your reading pleasure:
"Dr. Gribbin seems fascinated with sensational theories of climactic variation... Perhaps what is more bothersome is Dr. Gribbin's unabashed bias to these theories that rest on little phsyical foundation."
Why don't
you do your research?
