Quote Originally Posted by BanginJimmy
No one can answer that question as there isnt even any proof that there is any global warming or if there is, what the cause is. For all we know this is a natural cycle for the earth. There have been at least 3 ice ages over the last couple hundred million years and countless periods of warmer and colder weather. It stands to reason that the earth warmed before or after the ice ages.
Ice ages take hundreds of thousands of years to come around. You can't say that because we have had 2 or three cooler years on a graph of 150 mostly warmer years that we are starting to have an "ice age". If we were really starting an ice age the decline would be so gradual that we would not perceive it in our lifetime.

Geologic events like ice ages work in a much, much longer timeline. If you look at the timeline over which the global rise in temperature has occurred and compare it to the geologic timeline of ice-ages and warming cycles, the contrast is shocking.