As I am sure you are aware there currently is no way to accurately predict what is coming in the earth's chaotic climate. There appears to be a correlation between cyclical sunspot activity and solar radiation which may be one explanation for the so called “little ice age”. So some people believe that current patterns indicate a coming cooling trend. I certainly would not bet the farm on it.
Unmanipulated data shows nothing that could not be explained by natural variation. Federal agencies under the Obama administration have attempted to manipulate ground based data to erase the recent nearly 20 year pause in warming as observed using satellite data.
Last week we had high temperatures in the 80s, the next day the highs were in the 50s. When we can have a daily variation in temperatures of 30 degrees or more how can one possibly claim to predict temperature trends that will happen 30 years in the future that are accurate within even a few degrees?
The only thing that can really be said about the theory that the amount CO2 in the atmosphere is the primary driver of future temperatures... is that so far the theory has not produced computer model predictions that have been even close to being accurate. One would think that since the theory has been around for decades now that if it were true at least some of the models would have had at least a small amount of predictive value.
We are just very lucky to live during an interglacial period. Surely, a world going through another ice age will not be able to support the current population of people living today. If previous patterns as discerned by ice core samples are any indicator we must be getting close in geologic time to the end of this interglacial period.
