From what I have read we are technically still in an ice age, but have been in a warming period for the last couple thousand or more years. When the ice age is over it will be lots warmer (no glaciers). Think about that.
In the mean time, we have had shorter periods of warming trends ( like since mid-1800s) and relapse toward ice age 1300-1850ish). During that cold period rivers like the Thames would totally freeze over every winter.
So a mini ice age from a grand solar minimum is very possible starting around 2020. People may pray for global warming by 2030. Maybe in a few thousand years the current ice age will end and people will think snow, glaciers and polar ice caps are just myths. More like it was in dinosaur days.
Solar cycles change, and our climate changes. We had better be able to adapt to climate change and not waste trillions of dollars trying to manage it vain.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! ... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry in an address at St. John’s Church, Richmond, Virginia, on March 23, 1775.
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