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Topic: Global Warming and the Next Ice Age
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al-Qa'bong
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posted 03 February 2004 02:21 AM
We could use an "Environment" Section.How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age... quote: In quick summary, if enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age - in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset - and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the "little ice age" of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.
According to discoveries mentioned in this article, ice ages don't come about gradually, but can occur in a year or two, as climate trends flip from warm to cold.
People on the West Coast should be safe enough... [ 03 February 2004: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ]
From: Saskatchistan | Registered: Feb 2003
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CMOT Dibbler
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posted 03 February 2004 04:51 PM
quote: Originally posted by al-Qa'bong: We could use an "Environment" Section.How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age... According to discoveries mentioned in this article, ice ages don't come about gradually, but can occur in a year or two, as climate trends flip from warm to cold.
People on the West Coast should be safe enough... [ 03 February 2004: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ]
We have drouts and harsh winters already...
From: Just outside Fernie, British Columbia | Registered: May 2003
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Bubbles
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posted 04 February 2004 02:47 PM
Look at the opportunities an 'instand' ice age has to offer.There could be a run on rooftop escape hatches. The idea that in a few years we could be covered in twenty feet of snow and ice. They better figure out how we all are going to fit in BC, the Yukon and Banks Island. Something for the new national emergency department to figure out. Sky scraper construction could be a hot item too. Just as someone mentioned this possibillity of another ice age is not new, we talked about this 20 years ago already. But that it could be on us so quickly is rather troubling, how could one prepare for something like that. A 10,000 year hibernation? Maybe if we could reduce ourself to the size of microbes.
Construction of reflectors in space to create some warm oasis in this huge ice desert.
This is too dreadfull to contemplate. We probably will all be froozen into inaction by this aproaching possibillity.
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