heres another site with something to say.
http://www.carc.org/pubs/v15no5/4.htm look down about half way and youll find this
There are a few important points about these profiles relevant to today's debate about the direction in which climate may be heading.
The climate at the drill-site has been colder than today's for about 80 000 out of the past 100 000 years. We tend to view our current climate as normal; however, it is very far from normal when viewed in terms of 100 000 years of record. Using ocean core records we might even say the planet's climate is due to return to the "normal" condition of an ice-age. What we should be seeking is not the cause of the ice-ages but the cause of interglacial periods.
If the ice-caps melted completely during the main part of the last interglacial period then that period must have been substantially warmer and/or longer than the present one.
The climate of the last 60 years has been colder than average for the last 10 000 years but warmer than average for the last 1000 years.
note that its only in compairison of the last 1000 years that we are in a warming condition. taking in a longer time frame and we are colder than normal.
just so you know, it was written by Dr. Roy M. Koerner Principal Investigator: Natural Resources Canada Geological Survey of Canada
a little farther down he says
The ice-core record in Figure 2 shows a large range of climatic conditions over the past 100 000 years. Compared to the last 10 years, temperatures show a range from about 10?C to 15?C colder 18 000 years ago through 3?C warmer 7000 to 8000 years ago, to 5?C warmer more than 100 000 years ago when the ice-cap began its growth. On a shorter time-scale, during the period of instrumental record, there is evidence from our cores of a 2.5?C warming between about 1750 and 1950. The warming trend, which has occasionally been identified as carbon-dioxide induced, can be seen as part of a much longer natural one.
