Read the book put out by Joe Bastardi about the oceans and the effect they have on the climate.
He uses this research-since he hasnt the funds to do his own in the field, he/they have to rely on this to come to their own conclusions.
In his book, if I remember right, he determined that the Ocean conveyor belts have flipped or nearly have flipped.
Couple this, with the lack of sun spots and we are in for a global cool down-NOT WARMING. All it would take is for another Pinatubo type volcanic eruption and we could see another minimum ice age.
The earth historically, swings from one extreme to the other. Warm to cold and cold to warm. The present weather we are experiencing is not really not to normal for earths climate. These moderate periods last for but a short period of time before the earth goes to one extreme or the other. The extremes are the norms for mother earth.
Well... On average the Earth’s climate has been cooling ever since the formation of the Himalayas. The pattern IS cyclical, as you state, but, our current interglacial is almost (almost) as warm as it’s been for the last few cycles. Therefor we ARE presently at a warm “extreme” (within the last million years or so), but it is a normal extreme / should be expected every 100k years or so. Only the relative lack of variation for the last 8k years or so is at all unusual, but, even so, two interglacial periods back, the shape of that peak (sort of clipped off) was somewhat similar to the one we are in.