@nebule It’s a comforting fantasy, but sadly quite false. 2010 was the warmest year on record so far. The science says that warming produced by greenhouse gas release and deforestation is melting the Arctic sea ice, which in turn pours much more water vapor into Arctic air and disturbs the flow of the Jet Stream, producing winter extremes of cold and snow in the Northern Hemisphere.
Look for increasing extremes—heat, cold, floods, droughts, storms. Look for massive, nation and continent wide crop failures, food shortages sparking wars and riots. It isn’t pretty. But I don’t see us mustering the political will now to stop it while there is time. I don’t think we can even get the climate change deniers to see what’s before their eyes. There is too much money involved in not seeing it. Too many are still profiting from the produce/consume/dispose consumerist culture to admit it is happening till it utterly ruins their lives and destroys most of them.
I think mankind will likely survive unless we let the coming angst lead to nuclear war. In that case, it may be our curtain call and nature can evolve another intelligent life form to have a second go at it if there remains time.