Posted on 12/07/2014 10:24:47 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Earth is presently in an interglacial perioda period between ice ages. Since the end of the last ice age, Earths surface temperatures have been above the temperature needed to maintain ice sheets and glaciers, which covered much of the land masses at mid-to-high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. As a result, those ice sheets and glaciers have been melting for tens of thousands of years and sea levels have risen and will continue to rise until the start of the next ice age.
Many of us are old enough to remember the scare stories from the 1970s, a time when climate scientists were warning that Earth was returning to an ice age.
For fun, imagine the multidecadal uptick in global surface temperatures didnt happen from the 1970s to presentthat global surfaces actually cooled a comparable amount, that sea levels were dropping, that glaciers and ice sheets were gaining mass.
Would mankind still be blamed? What would be different?
Their main objective is to get the nuclear plant online and connected to the grid? I’ve been thinking about that recently.
MMM....toastie feet
STOP GLOBAL WEATHER NOW!!!
There would be massive loss of croplands and mass movement of populations south. War and famine would be inevitable.
I'm glad I won't live to see it.
Our only hope is that the alarmists are right and mankind has broken the cycle we've been in for the last 1 million + years, but I know they're wrong.
as long as the climate changes one way or the other, I get my federal grant
Good news, the polar bears won’t drown after all.
Feet Cold? Been watching WINDWALKER?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windwalker_%28film%29
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081760/
40 years old but very apt - the nuclear power plant can provide power to a large region after oil and gas all stop, and defending it for eco-nazis is the mark of civilization
I’ve seen it. Netflix has it.
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/70048397?sod=search-autocomplete
Dark and disturbing, but then, I can enjoy that sort of movie.
I think you might find that Arctic temperatures might rise and sea ice melt some before continental glaciers form.
What's more important is what would be the same. Oil is a basic necessity, so the bureaucrats (and leftists) would still make it a sin requiring a sin tax. The products of combustion would still be a "scientific" basis for the cause of the cold climate.
What I want to know is what causes the major drop to begin. You can see the Toba drop at 74,000 ya, and I know that 22,000 ya Sakurajima blew out a 15 mile diameter crater and there were several other large volcanoes around that time also. If we had the chart going back a million years we could see if Yellowstone, about 640,000 ya had an impact as well as Long Valley in the 700ks
Dang, it’s cold out thar!
Glaciation to miles of depth of ice results from energy, not from cloud cover, IOW, the ice ages were rapid-onset and resulted from large impacts on the oceans.
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