What are intermittent warm periods in a long term ice age called?

Moxxilady, that sounds good except that this one is accelerated by human interference. It will indeed end in its own good time but humans may not still be around to see that

Instead of bleating about global warming as if it's a manufactured phenomenon, folk should understand that it is normal, and explained succinctly above as an interglacial period, which will end in it's own good time.