The Philosophy Discussion

Jake Surely if we're coming out of an ice age the ice caps are meant to be melting?

Not sure what this sentence means ?

Jake Are we being told it's because of global warming because western countries are running out of fuel and having to rely on other countries for it and want us to use less of it so that western countries still have control?

We are being told the the ice caps are melting because of man-made global warming, because the overwhelming consensus amongst scientists is that this is the case.