We are currently in an ice age, but in an interglacial period of relative warmth. Recent interglacials have lasted from 12-50 thousand years.
Ice ages don’t have a regular schedule for when they occur. Theearth goes to various cycles of warming and cooling which happen atrandom. Estimates of when ice ages are said to occur are every400,000 to every 1,000,000 years.

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