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

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

[mhking]

Someone has seen one too many film trailers....

Just damn.

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[Blood of Tyrants]

Haven't you heard? The latest envirowacko junk science is saying that global warming will CAUSE an ice age!

The global warming will melt the polar ice cap which will flood the North Sea with frigid fresh water and block the Gulf Stream current which will cause an ice age in Europe.

[FreedomCalls]

I'm calling my investor right now to get some energy stocks. If you're gonna keep warm, you've gotta to pay for fuel.

[woofer]

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.

Yes, I see.

But them damned glaciers sneak in from the north, sliding off the mountains. One day, open prairie. The next, Phloomf! 2 miles thick sheet of ice.

And mammoths crappin' all over the place.

[isom35]

if everyone in the path of an oncoming glacier uses their hairdryers, there will be no trouble at all.

[The Great RJ]

In the long history of this planet there has never been such a radical shift in the earths climate in this short a time frame. To suggest that half of the northern hemisphere will again be covered by ice sheets 20 years from now is ridiculous. So unless the earth's orbit is changed by collision with a giant asteroid or the sun radically changes it's output in the next 2 decades, I'm not going to plan on year around skiing in the Dakotas nor stock up on suntan oil either. This 20 years to climatic doomsday is pure bunk and is not supported by anyone reputable.

[weegee]

Osam Bin Laden's not going to be a happy camper...

Bin Laden cast as family man who loves volleyball, hates ice

[woofer]

So unless the earth's orbit is changed by collision with a giant asteroid or the sun radically changes it's output in the next 2 decades, I'm not going to plan on year around skiing in the Dakotas...

Why that would be ridiculous.

Everybody knows that the leading edge of the glaciers will be in Nebraska. You'll only be able to cross-country ski in the Dakotas.

[Lawgvr1955]

I agree that all the doom and gloom talk needs taken with a grain of salt. I am old enough to remember the first Earth Day and about that time I also read Erlichs (sp?) "The Population Bomb". Tons of dire warnings of imminent disaster.

None of it came true, yet the warnings still get great media attention. I guess no one read about the boy who cried wolf.

If an Ice Age is coming, I think it is pretty arrogant of man to think he has the power to stop it.

[hosepipe]

GET OUT OF HERE.. (pushing like Elaine on Seinfeld)
(laugh like Eddie Murphy)

[Pipeline]

Its the polar shift, stupid!!! Our very existence on this planet threatens to shift the rotational axis due to the increase of human body mass unequally distributed over the surface of the planet. Add to that the weight of all the structures and automobiles, couple this with the countless tons of CO2 and methane we emit each year and you can plainly see we must, as a species, annihilate ourselves before we destroy the earth!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!
Whew! I've been hanging around those 'green' sites way too much!

[flying Elvis]

But what about the sheild volcano in Yellowstone, giant asteriods hurddling our way, the Gulf Stream disappearing, SARS, and global warming? I'm confused, just one apocalypse at a time is all I can handle!

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

[Pete]

The Sahara may again become forested while the Amazon basin becomes a desert.

I have 1.5 million acres of Sahara desert that is going to be worth a forture in 20 years. Buy sand today, reap forest tomorrow. 5,000-acre lots going fast! Don't miss out!

[gitmo]

This guy's not telling the whole story. Things will be much worse than he is portraying. We're going to have and ice age and global warming at the same time! Those that aren't killed by the ice will roast to death in minutes.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

And mammoths crappin' all over the place.

That's too funny, man! LOL!

[SandRat]

Well, ... that's one way to silence the French I guess.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

We're going to have and ice age and global warming at the same time! Those that aren't killed by the ice will roast to death in minutes.

Baked Alaska...literally!

[kaylar]

D**n, you anticipated my remark! I saw the previews for TDAT before seeing "Hildago" yesterday.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[lizma]

I am old enough to remember the first Earth Day

Me too. Return of the Ice Age was the rage back then too.