>There is just as much of a hole in the science about a warmer planet as there is for it’s cause. We are in the midst of and inter-glacial warming period for this planet. It might happen that humans will last long enough to see the coming of the next ice age. Will we finally be done with this nonsense when that time comes? Or will the ice age be caused by the previous man made global warming?
We’re actually in the tail end of a inter-glacial period and the overall trend has been back to full glaciation for quite a while.
+/- a few million years I suppose.
Let's not forget, our existence as a species in this current form (however you want to measure it or date our creation), is a relative flash in the pan when measuring global climate changes. We've only been "thinking" for about 100K years. We started recording history for the future about 15K years ago (all arguable). By the time the next ice age starts to endanger our species, I would expect we have colonized other locations in our solar system and/or galaxy. Suffice it to say, I am not worried about global warming or global cooling for myself or the fruit of my loins for the next several generations. ;o)