"At an international symposium convened by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory last October, the consensus answer was, "Yes, but not for at least another five thousand years." While that sounds like a simple reprieve, the issue of what the geologic record of past climate can tell us about the future remains both complicated and contentious."
The initial comment was directed at papers published during the 1970s that predicted a significant global cooling trend leading to the next glacial period.