Natural Temperature Fluctuation

Before an ice age, temperatures naturally go up. Normally, there is more than 10,000 years between ice ages. However, due to human emission, we have sped up our ice age cycle. We are warming up the Earth too fast, and we are making a dent in the ice age cycle. At this point, if we humans never emitted CO2, we would be having normal temperatures. We could have expected an ice age a few thousand years from now. However, due to our pollution and emissions, we have almost guaranteed that we will have major glaciation of the Northern hemisphere within the next 1,000 years, if not the next 100 years. However, until the glaciers move in, temperatures will rise and rise, sea levels will rise and rise, and many people will be displaced. The "Little Ice Age" that Burnett referred to was caused by global dimming, a counter-force to global warming. Global dimming was able to keep global warming at bay for a very short period of time, hence our "Little Ice age," with temperatures dropping 1 degree celsius.