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| Next ice age not likely for 1 500 years |
| 2012-01-10 |
 [News 24] High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1 500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday.I sure hope my coat's back from the cleaners by then... Concentrations of the main gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in 2010 and will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today, according to the UN's weather agency. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #25 OOOOOOO, Vogons! I for one welcome our new Vogon overlords! * ION CHINA DAILY FORUM > [Journal of Environmental Radioactivity] STUDY: PLUTONIUM FROM FUKUSHIMA HAS NOW CIRCLED THE PLANET. 1960's-1970's GUAM TAOTAMONAS + MADONNA strike true once again. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-10 23:19 |
| #24 USN, Ret. wins the thread! :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-10 21:28 |
| #23 Next ice age not likely for 1,500 years And even then it will STILL be Bush's fault! |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2012-01-10 21:13 |
| #22 "next year". They are that close /kinda sarc. Lifelong diehard |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-01-10 20:56 |
| #21 But, but, but...what about the Chargers? Get real. Haven't you seen the headlines, "Ice Age delayed, women and minorities to be hardest hit" But don't worry, the trusty trio of Gore, Manne and Tipper are on the case and we will solve everything as soon as our multimillion dollar grant comes through.We are doing it for the children and their children (not that they've ever done anything for us. Where were they during the war,ehh!) |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-01-10 20:52 |
| #20 Pleistocene Park gets chilly in the dark All the wooly mammoths are running wiiiild! Someone let smiledon out of his den and I'm afraid that he will catch me 'cuz he sure don't act like Tony Don't think I'll be coming this way agaaiin Ohhhhnoooooo!! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-01-10 19:33 |
| #19 But, but, but...what about the Chargers? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-10 16:17 |
| #18 In that same year the LA Clippers, Cleveland Indians and Buffalo Bills will also win world chapionships. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2012-01-10 16:12 |
| #17 Sorry, Darth - BP wins this round. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-01-10 15:47 |
| #16 "Fallen Angels" rules! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-01-10 14:53 |
| #15 It isn't CO2 that will be delaying the onset of the next glacial phase, it is natural orbital variation. We will be seeing increasing solar insolation in the Northern Hemisphere for a while. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-01-10 14:31 |
| #14 In many areas of the world the challenge to global warming has been ignored. Like the economic mess. I call it the regressive progressive movement. As they self destruct they will pull others with them like a drowning person. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-01-10 14:17 |
| #13 When this "inconsistency" is pointed out and queried their only response is to engage in spittle flecked invective, often referring to GWB in some way or other. The first person to lose their temper loses the argument. But they'll never admit it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-10 14:16 |
| #12 I've had a chance over the holidays this year to try and talk to a slew of gerbil wormers. Of course it didn't amount to anything because they literally can not converse. They can neither ask intelligent questions nor process answers; if asked a question of any kind they can not provide an answer other than the rote sound bite appropriate according to their dogma. This, in spite of the fact, that their sound bite is diametrically opposed to the sound bite they uttered 30 seconds earlier. When this "inconsistency" is pointed out and queried their only response is to engage in spittle flecked invective, often referring to GWB in some way or other. The whole interaction rarely lasted more than 2 minutes from opening "hello" to snot-dripping rage. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-01-10 13:52 |
| #11 I didn't know that Ice Ages made reservations... |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-01-10 13:13 |
| #10 MDUSA - "Many die, u shall also." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-01-10 12:29 |
| #9 So we have two opposing "threats". One will cause the most panic, and the other can be promoted, and funded, as the remedy. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2012-01-10 12:23 |
| #8 It isn't so much that they don't talk to each other Bill - it's that, in the end, they couldn't give a flaming ball of sh*t about the environment as long as their grant money keeps pouring in and they can boss people around (see EPA). That is what's important to them - not some silly-ass environment. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2012-01-10 11:30 |
| #7 Does this mean the solution to global warming is another ice age? BTW how does the prospects of thousands of species of tropical plants and animals going extinct in a world wide cooling fly with our dim light bulb earth first animal liberation vegan PETA crowd? none of these idiots in the environmental left talk to each other, if they ever compared notes, they would realize that global warming would increase habitat as vast areas of Africa, South America and the US Southwest would become green from rain and we'd have more arable land to grow food. I think the prospects of being able to feed a couple of billion more people is why the environazis don't want global warming. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2012-01-10 10:43 |
| #6 While warming due to increased CO2 is currently undetectable, in a century or two it may become detectable. In 1,500 years it may significant enough to do us some good. Or not. |
| Posted by: Clem Turkeyneck1922 2012-01-10 10:27 |
| #5 The world in 1500 years will Have peak Oilers predicting oil will run out in 35 years time. Have people saying the Vogons are a peaceful race. Have a group who want the currency to be run by largely foreign gold-miners. The people running the currency are a group of academics so awful, it might be better if any other group did run the currency. Still have Malthusian twits. Still have people calling David Ricardo and Adam Smith communists. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-10 10:21 |
| #4 If you think about it, the world in 1,500 years will likely: 1) Not have a United States, as such, though one or more North American nations will claim descent from it. 2) Will have a population of around 3-4 billion people. 3) Will have significantly different flora and fauna, with many extinctions and new species. 4) May or may not have much of an entire continent devastated by some natural catastrophe such as a meteor or super-volcano eruption. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-10 09:17 |
| #3 Population drops significantly during extended cold spells be they full ice ages or mini-ice ages. The rubes who've been Chicken Little'ing global warming seem to have missed that fine point. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-01-10 07:47 |
| #2 ...are we supposed to be upset about that? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2012-01-10 00:46 |
| #1 Yokay-y-y, but IMO this forecast has to be weighed agz previous reptitive Pert forecasts warning of significant global temperature range increases 2050-2100 - iff correct, the latter directly infers that the Sun will emit far stronger solar flares = CMES, etc. than presently experienced on Earth. "LETHAL/DEADLY" GLACIAL? ICE AGE VS. "GREAT/MIGHTY SLUSHY". versus * WORLD NEWS > {James Hanson = NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies] "GAME OVER" FOR PLANET IFF KEYSTONE PIPELINE BUILT. Human Self-Extinction??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-01-10 00:29 |