If you would read articles from both sides, you’d notice that some GW advocates (not skeptics) claim that we should be in a cooling phase *now,* but instead we’re in a warming phase. So in some ways, voices from the GW advocate camp are in substantial agreement with some of the claims about cooling, but are saying that the warming effects are more serious than previously thought precisely because of the cooling that should be taking place.

Furthermore, the idea in the second article that warming preceeds an ice age is true, but that doesn’t mean the current warming trend is natural and unavoidable, and that no blame should be placed on human-generated C02. Trotting out this observation about warming before ice age proves nothing about human-generated C02.

In fact, the title is very misleading:
“Forget Warming - Beware the New Ice Age.”
This was one of Gore’s points in “An Inconvenient Truth”: If enough polar ice and enough of the Greenland ice sheet melt, it could stop the gulf stream and lead to a new ice age.

This may have happened naturally in the past, but if human beings have any control over their effects on climate, it would seem we have a responsibility to study it, and if we can avoid climate disasters that could displace people, harm people, cause drought and starvation, then we have an obligation.

It puzzles me that you’re pro-business, you quote Financial Post and other conservative, free-enterprise sources, which often have a can-do, get-it-done attitude;
and yet when it comes to global warming, you seem very quick to wash your hands, blame it on mother nature, and take a passive approach. Doesn’t seem to make sense.