The earth seems to have tilted on it's axis so that the sun is far north during the summer. More than previously. Ice core samples taken from Antarctica show the last 800,000 years ice, which scientist can tell what the climate was like in the past. They found its a cycle of ice ages lasting about 100,000 years with warming up periods between the ice ages lasting about 10,000 years. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. 17 major league baseball games were cancelled today because of snow.