Too many projects, too little time

I found a very interesting and downright scary post while researching on climate change and extreme weather.

http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-0/

We humans are all wound up with global warming and how we should reduce our carbon emissions, as if that will stop the natural cycle of earth’s climate. We are trying to understand and change a cycle of hundreds of thousands years from data worth only a thousand years. The most interesting fact from the article is:

…increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.

And the scariest part is:

The Vostok ice core data graph reveals that global CO2 levels regularly rose and fell in a direct response to the natural cycle of Ice Age minimums and maximums during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years. Within that natural cycle, about every 110,000 years global temperatures, followed by global CO2 levels, have peaked at approximately the same levels which they are at today.

Today we are again at the peak, and near to the end, of a warm interglacial, and the earth is now due to enter the next Ice Age. If we are lucky, we may have a few years to prepare for it. The Ice Age will return, as it always has, in its regular and natural cycle, with or without any influence from the effects of AGW.

The article makes sense to me. It is only natural to be short sighted and not try to be scared of life changing events even if they seem to be knocking our doors. Media does not like to highlight the harsh scientific facts because truth is not popular.

I guess we got to get ready for a chilled future, if we get to live through the transition at all.