In all articles you will find our most pleasant climate referred to as an inter glacial period. This is accurate. The reason this is accurate is the norm is full blown glacial periods lasting hundreds of thousands of years with brief interludes as what we experience now.
Geologically speaking we may just be in a brief warming period but still in an ice age. By definition an ice age is not ended until the polar caps have melted. In fact the polar ice caps may melt and great increases in sea level may occur. The increase will be over thousands of years and man will slowly move back from the coasts with little economic disruption. If we are truly at the end of an ice age great swaths of continents will thrive as our coasts retreat. Canada and Siberia of Russia will be the big winners on this.
Man does not have one damn thing to do with this. The thermonuclear furnace known as the sun which is not constant and orbital mechanics determine ice ages.
Ice ages are normal. We live in a wonderful abnormal time of warmth. Enjoy the abnormality as Ice Ages are hell on all life.
I forgot to add, CO2 is plant food.
Today the world is reaping record harvests due to increase in CO2 levels. The increase in CO2 are a function of mans use of hydrocarbons and increases in world temperatures that decrease the solubility of CO2 in the oceans. We really do not know which is the major driver of increased CO2. If a so called scientists tells you it is man or another so called scientist tells you it warming of the oceans neither one is a scientist unless they say it "may be for these reasons."We really do not know. However, geological what is happening today is totally and 100% what has happened in the geologic past before man ever trod foot on earth.
I have been harping on that for decades, that next ice age will kill 10 times as many humans as next peak warming period. Even with all the advances in science, a winter storm kills lot more people than a heat wave, in United States.