The Icecaps have been retreating for some decades now. The North Pole already has been penetrated by an Icebreaker. And with all this ice melting, the total temperature of the oceans are warming.
Parallell of another thread now, here is a quote just posted there:
"The Earth is now in an interglacial period known as the Holocene. It was conventional wisdom that "the typical interglacial period lasts about 12,000 years" but now appears to be incorrect from the evidence of ice core records. Therefore, it has been widely contradicted recently; for example, an article in Nature[4] argues that the current interglacial might be most analogous to a previous interglacial that lasted 28,000 years.
Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next ice age will begin about 50,000 years from now, regardless of man-made global warming [5] (see Milankovitch cycles). However anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gases should outweigh orbital forcing for as long as intensive use of fossil fuels continues (see global warming)."
You'll find the links if you look.
