Cooling might take the edge off the peak of a planetary fever, or perhaps buy time as emissions cuts begin to have the desired effects.

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You should also be aware that almost none of us have air conditioning: our peak energy demand is very definitely in these cold winter snaps, not in summer for cooling.

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Essentially, he says that a dramatic temperature peak will be reached in years measured in high tens to low hundreds, and that the cooling period following will take anywhere from 100, 000 to 500, 000 years, depending on what we humans do right now and in the next decade about carbon emissions.

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