Sixstrings wrote:So, what do you guys think? I know the Ice Age scare went around in the 70's too, before people got on the global warming bandwagon. Now cold winters in 07, 08, and likely 09 have folks talking ice age again.
Sixstrings wrote:So, what do you guys think? I know the Ice Age scare went around in the 70's too, before people got on the global warming bandwagon. Now cold winters in 07, 08, and likely 09 have folks talking ice age again.
I'm reminded of Colleen McCullough's pretty good novel _A creed for the Third Millenium_, a story set in a post 2000's America struggling with the descent of a new ice age.
For those more knowledgeable than myself, perhaps you can answer a question for me. If the Holocene period is ending and we are indeed returning to Ice Age, what would be the progression timewise? How long for the norhern US to be uninabitably cold and such? And how long for ice sheets to form and grow?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
StormBringer wrote:Growing up in Mo. we get a bit of everything here from bitter cold in winter to extreme heat in summer. But I remember as a child snow measured above the foot mark, and I haven't seen that in a long time. Admittedly the temps are colder than average but the snow fall is much less. ANY IDEAS? WHY THE COLD YET NO SNOW?
Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
Prada.ru
January 11, 2009
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
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The [global warming] theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.
mrbig wrote:How about Sweden? Any difference there?
Answer: Yes much colder then the last 3years. but winter isnt over untill late march-mid april. But sure as hell feels like we are in for 2 cold months. Last year we barely saw snow in stockholm.
Is a new Ice Age upon us?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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