This is highly speculative analysis, but looking at the most
recent climate data, I can’t help but think that this is more
evidence that anthropogenic global warming is averting an ice
age: There can be no doubt that in recent years that there has
been a large uptick in temperature, probably related to the
sharp uptick in carbon dioxide levels. Temperatures have
returned to levels last seen during the peak of the most recent
interglacial period, 6,000 to 8,000 years ago Analysis by
climate scientists has tended to focus on the disruptive effects
that this may have — sea level rise, glacier loss, drought, etc.
What’s striking about the extended timeframe data, however, is
the gradual downward slope over the last 6000 years — the
Earth’s climate was changing in the opposite direction when
humans began offsetting this by burning fossil fuels. It does
not seem unreasonable, given the evidence of a longer-term
glaciation cycle, that had humans not started to emit massive
quantities of greenhouse gases, that the co