If one looks at the long-term climate history with the previous ice ages, one can see that this inter-glacial warm period we have had for the last 12,000(?) years is longer than any of the previous ones.
While that may be God’s hand keeping it warm for us - I also wouldn’t be surprised if a real ice age happens. The kind with mile-high ice over Chicago.
I guess if something is going to spark an Armageddon, that would do it. Lots of people fighting over land that still might be warm enough to grow crops. Like the Middle East.
I knew an old-timer geologist that was predicting a mini-ice age 20 years ago. He also was quite the gardener, and did lots of research and splicing various types of grains to make them more adaptable to cold, dry weather. The seeds are now used in Scandavia, and also stored in some vault that contains seeds from around the world.
He was big into cycles, and had shown the price of gold to be related to the solar cycle. That might be a bit odd, but I suppose low solar cycles mean cold weather mean bad crops mean bad economy - means higher gold prices.
As is traditional, I responded without reading all the posts on the thread. You are quite right.
“I also wouldn’t be surprised if a real ice age happens.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth’s surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Within a long-term ice age, individual pulses of cold climate are termed “glacial periods” (or alternatively “glacials” or “glaciations” or colloquially as “ice age”), and intermittent warm periods are called “interglacials”. Glaciologically, ice age implies the presence of extensive ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres.[1] By this definition, we are in an interglacial period—the holocene—of the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.[2]
Even that would not stop Crook County from turning in 110% Democratic voting results.
Might even enhance it a bit, due to a larger dead population.