Interesting article. Seems confusing. On the one hand they imply this interglacial would continue for 50,000 years.

"Even without man-made climate change, we would expect the beginning of a new ice age no earlier than in 50,000 years from now—which makes the Holocene as the present geological epoch an unusually long period between ice ages," explains lead author Andrey Ganopolski.

On the other hand they suggest we narrowly missed entering an "ice age" a few hundred years ago.

The researchers also looked back into the Earth’s history, and found that we narrowly missed descending into an ice age a few hundred years ago.

Natural CO2 levels during the most recent interglacial periods have been at around 280 parts per million (ppm), but have been as low as 240ppm in the more distant past.

Running their model for these different levels of atmospheric CO2, the researchers found that an ice age could have been triggered if CO2 had been at the lower level of 240ppm.

A recent study suggested that land clearance and early agriculture by humans around that time could be the reason for the extra 40ppm in the atmosphere. But Ganopolski and his co-authors say the changes to land use are unlikely to have caused such a large increase in CO2.

They seem to confuse the terms "ice age" and "glacial period". Ice age refers to the Pleistocene. Glacial period and interglacial period refer to the cold and warm periods of the ice age.

This article seems alarmist in nature. The future conditions they predict will never occur. It is absurd to think the Holocene Epoch interglacial would continue for another 50,000 years. How does an absurd article like this get peer review and published in quality periodical? This paper is beyond ridiculous saying the future glacial period has been cancelled. 100,000 year warm period? Preposterous.