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True we are in an inter-glacial period. That is any period that is not an ice age. The problem is, the current inter-glacial period passed its climatic optimum phase (which is the period when it is warmest and most habitable) roughly 2600 years ago, and yet our climate has warmed more in the past decade than in the last 100 years prior to it...skeptics can claim its coincidence or blame sunspots or turn to junk science but any reputable science-based study will lead to the same conclusion- that we are warming our planet because of the fossil fuels we are burning. And if we don't change our ways, humankind and most life currently on the planet will not reach the next ice age.

Art of NY 1:10PM October 05, 2009

I hope increasing green house gases will delay the advent of the next ice age that will mark the end of the current inter-glacial period - but I doubt it. The ice will return and it will be far more disastrous to civilization than a green house effect.
Plants and animals thrive in a green house - Most die on a sheet of ice.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:31PM September 27, 2009