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Check out this graph from the L.A. Times, accompanying their recent story entitled, "Study of centuries of weather suggests record warming ahead":

What does this all mean?

New research into Earth's ancient climate is providing a clearer, more detailed view of how the planet's average surface temperature fluctuated over the period known as the Holocene epoch, which continues today. It's the time in which humans truly began making their mark on the planet, abandoning their hunting and gathering traditions and adopting a settled, agricultural lifestyle.

In a study published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, researchers used eight indirect temperature indicators -- such as pollen and shells from marine organisms -- to chart long-term global warming and cooling trends. The research team concluded that temperatures in the last decade had not exceeded the Holocene's steamiest periods from thousands of years ago. However, if current warming trends hold, those records will be broken by the end of the century.

"By the year 2100, we will be beyond anything human society has ever experienced," said study leader Shaun Marcott, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University's College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences.

It's just so obvious what the human race is doing to the planet, and yet we dither as the mother Earth cooks.

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