will co2 in the air stop the next ice age?

Probably.

Or, more precisely, it will probably be 500,000 years before ice age cycles resume their typical 100,000 year cycle. Here's the science:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/07082...

Very doubtful as most of the best I have met over the years feel we are overdue foe a full ice age by more than 400 years and they have got charts that document the last 50 million years. Most of those I have known for years clearly point out that the core argument of the liberals for years was this warm period is a freak and the little ice age that began around 1300 should have been the beginning of a return to full ice age conditions.

The basis of the argument between conservatives and liberals in solar and climate science boils down to whether the current climate optimum that began after the Maunder minimum is natural or not. The liberals claim that man warmed the earth up unnaturally through industry that began operation in the 1500s. Conservatives point out that it is the sun that warms and cools the planets and that this is caused when the sun encounters elements of some form in space that cause it to warm and when it does not encounter these material sources the sun is in its ice age low output mode and the faithfulness or sinfulness on man has nothing to do with the suns output level.

So it seems as always it is liberals who take the religious tack focusing on human sinfulness as the cause of warming while conservatives take the scientific tack that some streams or currents of elements in space affect the output of the sun when it encounters them.

http://climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu/think2/post/t...

http://hubpages.com/hub/Club_of_Rome

http://www.heartland.org/full/24851/The_Politics_o...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaNcQ4Wj7bQ&feature...

http://books.google.com/books?id=wHihWKJE3asC&dq=m...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose-step_(book)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

http://green-agenda.com/globalrevolution.html

No the next Ice Age will happen when it happens. We are currently in a brief warm period in the middle of an ice age. So the earth will start to cool again before it warms even more by the way of a natural cycle.

Global Warming Will Cause - The Coming Ice Age

The amount of CO2 presently in the air absorbs nearly all available radiation at ... they are planning for the next ice age, when Siberia will likely be free of ice?

The next ice age is not due for 23,000 years. Mankind's knowledge and technology will be much different from now. The natural cycle is due to the earth's orbit and tilt (Milankovitch Cycles); we have been in a long-term cooling cycle for the past 6,000 years -- at least we were until something overwhelmed the natural cycle.

The ice samples show that with natural warming, CO2 levels follow by 800 years. The CO2 is emitted by warmer oceans. But we know something is much different now: the CO2 did not lag. Temperatures and CO2 have increased together. Also, the oceans have not been throwing-off CO2 but have been absorbing it. We also know the increased CO2 is not natural because of the isotopes; we know the increase has come from burning wood and fossil fuels.

Even with natural warming when the CO2 lagged by 800 years, it accelerated the warming -- it was a positive feedback.

Couple of thoughts here. By the time the next ice age rolls in, it's likely we won't be burning fossil fuels any more so your point is moot in that regard.

In the future when we more accurately learn how the climate works, we may come up with technology to "stabilize" the climate system. I say that because again, I think it's still pretty far off and given the technological progress in the last hundred years, who knows what it will be like in another hundred or even one thousand years?

I really hope so as if we are very lucky and warm enough, we may avert the next ice age: Ice ages are not controversial ideas like global warming, they are real and acknowledged by all scientists regardless of political affiliation. They occur like clockwork, they appear very rapidly, within a few human generations, and wipe out most animal and plant life on the planet.

We could save millions of our granchildren!

Not likely. CO2 doesn't have nearly enough effect.

Forget it. We can't stop what is happening. Honestly I don't believe in global warming.

it stopped the first one i believe.

we may do it again