The coming ice age [full-blown glaciation in less than 20 years]

Backwoods Home ^ | 3-8-04 | John Silveira

[SJackson]

5 years. I'm applying for a wolly mammouth tag right away!

[Semper Paratus]

The coming Ice Age. Sounds like that '70's show.

[RightWhale]

Probably won't affect much here in Fairbanks. This area wasn't glaciated last time, either.

[TADSLOS]

That's ok, Global Warming will solve this problem. Besides, after Al Gore kick's El Nino's ass, he will be available to go mano a mano with El Icicle.

[AgThorn]

Damn ... and I was counting on the global warming thing! Will this help or hurt the Liberals in the next election? You know they will blame the Conservatives!

[andy58-in-nh]

[SandRat]

uh, ... what happened to Global Warming?

[AntiGuv]

Hmm.. Might be time for those bulk purchases of Spam™ and camouflage duct tape..

[backhoe]

The coming Ice Age...

Seems like I read "The Coming Dark Age" by Roberto Vacca in the seventies.

[Spruce]

Too Much!

[listenhillary]

The 4 BILLION DOLLAR a year global warming scam industry is going to be P*ssed!

[raloxk]

I see where this is going.

Enviromental-wackos over the last 15 years have failed to alarm the public about global warming and its effect in the year 2100, so now they are stepping it up a notch saying unless we abnadon CO2 immediately, disaster is less than 20 years away.

[Monti Cello]

Howdy Mexicanos!! I'm Johnny Gringo, your new migrant friend!!

In case of ice age, we can make that immigration door swings both ways, ya know...fix me up some tacos and a fat government check, and a hospital bed, cause hell knows what I might come down with until we clean your, I mean, OUR new country up. Habla ingles??

[American_Centurion]

Sounds like the south can look forward to serious property value increases.

I'm buyin 100 acres this summer. Maybe I should buy more?

[MediaMole]

The PR agency for the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" strikes again.

[Paleo Conservative]

A little old man walks into a lumber company office, and applies for a job as a lumberjack. The foreman politely tries to talk him out of the idea. After all, he is old, small, and apparently much too weak to fell trees.

The old man picks up a saw and walks over to a huge redwood. In record time, the old man is finished sawing down the tree.

"That's just astounding," the forman says, "wherever did you learn to saw trees like that?"

"Well now," the old man smiles, "have you ever heard of the Sahara Forest?"

"You mean the Sahara Desert."

"Sure, that's what it's called NOW..."

[BossLady]

Welp, it's nice to know my 'Y2K' kit can be recycled into 'The Coming Ice Age' kit ;o)

[RightWhale]

The thing is that everybody can look out their window or go outside and see for themselves. It's not easy to associate 2 feet of snow with global warming, and similarly a backyard barbeque this summer won't associate well with a new Ice Age. Of course there is always a weather record to break and the alarm can be sounded when it is the 'hottest June 14 in the last 20 years,' or 'the coldest Jan 14 since 1941 in Cleveland.'

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

lol that is too funny!!!!

[dirtboy]

Physical evidence indicates that when the last ice age started, the British Isles went from a temperate climate to being completely covered with glaciers hundreds of feet thick in just 20 years.

Although I do agree that rapid climate change is possible, contemplate that claim for a moment. Let's make this minimalist and say that hundreds of feet = 200 feet. That means that 10 feet of ice needs to be created each year.

Snow is fluffy stuff. It takes about 10 inches of wet snow to make one inch of rain equivalent, and we'll be generous and say that five inches of snow would compact to an inch of glacial ice. So to accumulate twenty feet of ice per year, that means we would need 100 feet of snow. That's 1200 inches a year - or 240 inches of rain equivalent in the winter. And that doesn't even compensate for seasonal melting.