Why Earth Gets Pulled Back Into An Ice Age Every 100,000 Years

📡 Read today's full written briefing on The Sky Lab Substack; published every morning before the video drops: 👉 https://theskylabofficial.substack.com/?r=8jx3e2&utm_campaign=youtube Subscribers get the data, the history, and the part nobody's talking about, in writing, the morning before each video goes live. Be in the yard for the next eclipse, meteor shower or aurora, and know what the forecast really means for your house: https://thespacedesk.net Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/61fmwVjMjX1hnU6n9x6yoI?si=muPr_50RQaq6KKvWS6KmHw Somewhere on Baffin Island, plants that were buried alive by advancing ice nearly 2,000 years ago are emerging into daylight, some of them still green. They come from the Barnes Ice Cap, the last surviving piece of the ice sheet that once lay more than two miles thick over Canada and the northern United States. For close to a million years, something has dragged Earth back into glaciation on a rhythm of roughly 100,000 years, and a new study in Science argues that the pull had quietly started working again. If the next ice age was already underway on an island almost nobody visits, why did its first ice stop growing in 1960? 🔔 Subscribe to The Sky Lab for space weather, solar activity, and the stories behind the storms. 💬 Drop a comment — where are you watching from, and was the ground beneath you once buried under the ice sheet? 📢 Share this video to help us grow this community. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 0:59 The Plants Coming Out of the Ice 11:46 When Ice Buried a Continent 23:06 The Ice Cap That Never Slid 34:01 The Prisoner Who Calculated the Ice Ages 45:23 The Mud That Kept Time 56:19 Why the Weakest Cycle Sets the Beat 1:07:03 Two Thousand Years of Creeping Ice 1:18:50 The Year the Ice Stopped Growing 1:31:03 The Warning That Came Too Early 1:42:58 How Close Were We? 1:55:08 Rescued From the Ice? 2:06:08 The Last Piece of the Laurentide SOURCES Late Holocene reexpansion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (Science) — https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed3379 Has the next ice age already come and gone? (Science Perspective) — https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aem3295 Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age (Columbia Climate School) — https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2026/10/22/climate-change-stopped-the-next-ice-age/ Climate Change Stopped the Next Ice Age (Lamont-Doherty) — https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/climate-change-stopped-next-ice-age Climate change stopped the next ice age (EurekAlert!) — https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1148745 What may have stopped a coming ice age (The Debrief) — https://thedebrief.org/scientists-once-warned-of-a-coming-ice-age-now-new-research-reveals-what-may-have-stopped-it/ The next ice age began under the Roman Empire (La Brújula Verde) — https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/10/the-next-ice-age-began-under-the-roman-empire-researchers-say-until-global-warming-stopped-it/ Global warming reversed 2,000 years of ice growth (Muser Press) — https://www.muser.press/2026/10/24/global-warming-reversed-2000-years/ The next ice age began 2,000 years ago (Martin Cid) — https://www.martincid.com/science/next-ice-age-began-barnes-ice-cap-warming-stopped-it/ Barnes Ice Cap data shows glacial onset started 2,000 years ago (Newsy Today) — https://www.newsy-today.com/barnes-ice-cap-data-shows-glacial-onset-started-2000-years-ago/ — ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational and informational purposes. Scientific data is sourced from NASA, NOAA, peer-reviewed research in Science and Nature, and verified reporting. Speculative sections are clearly identified. This channel does not promote conspiracy theories as fact — we explore them honestly and tell you where the science actually stands. FOOTAGE AND IMAGE SOURCES NASA: https://images.nasa.gov Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org Sentinel-2 cloudless by EOX IT Services (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016): https://s2maps.eu #NextIceAge #BarnesIceCap