It may be just the opposite; i.e, the Earth is actuallly in a cooling cycle so the current warming is even worse than indicated. There was an article in Scient

It may be just the opposite; i.e, the Earth is actuallly in a cooling cycle so the current warming is even worse than indicated. There was an article in Scientific American back 2005 where the author claims that human activity since the dawn of agriculture may have held off a return to an ice age: https://physics.ucf.edu/~britt/Climate/Reading5-Did%20humans%20alter%20global%20climate.pdf https://physics.ucf.edu/~britt/Climate/Reading5-Did%20humans... This very much does not mean that the current warming is in any way a good thing.