That's probably true. But it's doing so on a timescale of centuries, whereas the cooling happened over hundreds of millennia. Maybe an apt metaphor is with pre

That's probably true. But it's doing so on a timescale of centuries, whereas the cooling happened over hundreds of millennia. Maybe an apt metaphor is with pressure. Go from ten atmospheres of pressure to one in an hour and your ears will pop. Do it in less than a second and your blood vessels will pop.