Study claims: Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages (Decreased CO2)

wattsupwiththat.com ^ | April 20, 2016 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Interesting!

[TexasFreeper2009]

The dramatic draw-down of carbon dioxide cooled the atmosphere, the new study suggests, and set the planet up for two ice ages, 80 million and 50 million years ago.

I swear the stupidity in science today is astounding !

CO2 went down because of the ice age ! the plants which consume CO2 DIED because of the ice age and thus CO2 went UP. CO2 didn't CAUSE the iceage! it was a result OF the ice age.

I swear! I kindergartner could figure this out!

[Snickering Hound]

Or stick with precession.

[Brookhaven]

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has remained on a fairly even keel,

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No it hasn’t. Ice ages & warm periods have occurred at regular intervals. We can expect another one in the future.

All of human history has occurred in one of the arm intervals between ice ages.

[eyeamok]

Around 80 million years ago, the planet’s temperature plummeted, along with carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The Earth eventually recovered, only to swing back into the present-day ice age 50 million years ago.

But that happened when the Earth was still Flat, now that it is Round, does it make a difference in their projections???

[Paladin2]

The next Ice Age is in the wings. We are doomed, someday.

[katana]

The dead horse beating of CO2 percentage as a climate change cause (effect is a separate matter) must sound like a xylophone by now. Nothing left but dried and hollow bones.

[Go_Raiders]

And don’t forget that cold water holds more CO2 than warm water. Cold oceans during ice ages hold tremendous amounts of CO2. when the ice age ends, the CO2 is released.

[RayChuang88]

That's not news. We know from studying how plate tectonics work that about 500 million years ago, because of the location of the continents (mostly in the Southern Hemisphere), Earth was supposedly encase in an ice sheet, in some places several miles high. However, over geologic time as the continents shifted along with volcanic activity, the ice sheet melted and we got our modern oceans.

[SampleMan]

All explanations must now rely on CO2 or the lack thereof. Sense I know CO2 is causality is BS, I know this research is BS.

There is also this gem, "For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has remained on a fairly even keel..."

[ProtectOurFreedom]

1. Oliver Jagoutz, associate professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT.
2. EAPS Professor Leigh Royden,
3. Francis McDonald of Harvard University

Published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Please get back to us when your peer-reviewed paper is published in the proceedings. Good luck with your research...your attitude is going to really endear you to your colleagues.

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

so a bunch of environmental nut jobs “reviewed” and “approved” of what a fellow nut job with the same agenda wrote?

big whoop!

I believe this about as much as they would believe research done by scientists hired by Exxon to study the issue.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

• >Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages

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[NormsRevenge]

Considering the amount of tectonic activity of late, veyyyy interesting indeed.

Ice ages happen..

Gondwana and Eurasia.? Two supercontinents that eventually split into today’s set.

[justa-hairyape]

And more than likely, volcanic activity coincided or caused the global cooling. But hey, that is the logical scientific conclusion, not the corrupted science needs more money solution.

[TexasFreeper2009]

or decreased solar output

[SierraWasp]

Well, that's ok, I have just as much proof that it was caused by God's Flood, (not Noah's) about 4K years ago when the "fountains of the deep" hydroliced the Earth's surface like my wife's pan full of hard-boiled eggs that exploded and burned yesterday cause she spent too much time on one lousy phone call and the water boiled out onto the stove surface!!!

Ran that whole house fan for an hour, then made and ate egg salad sandwiches with the salvageable ones!!!

That was "interesting," too...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hey,...eggs are good for us Now,

See the Book Eat Fat and GET Thin,,,,by Mark Hyman M.D, ....

Catch his story on your local PBS TV Station.

Eat Fat Get Thin

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]