No, not at all. The ice age cycle is a much slower one than the one we're considering here -- given the evidence for a green Sahara until 4200 BC, cells can shift and reform in much less time than it takes for an ice age to establish itself.
My working guess is that we were going to have an ice age until the sheer output of greenhouse gases by industrial society swamped the forces pushing toward global cooling. So we get an anomalous warm period for a few thousand years, and then a somewhat steeper descent into the next ice age after that.
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Date: 2022-05-15 07:34 pm (UTC)My working guess is that we were going to have an ice age until the sheer output of greenhouse gases by industrial society swamped the forces pushing toward global cooling. So we get an anomalous warm period for a few thousand years, and then a somewhat steeper descent into the next ice age after that.