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

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

[TheDon]

Well, one thing is for sure, something really bad is going to happen to us all if we don't quickly adopt world wide socialism!

[TheDon]

I was trying to understand how you get 2 miles of snow in 20 years. It does seem a bit much. Does it really rain that much anywhere?

[raloxk]

Great Story on how that UK Guardian report on how a Pentagon Paper said global warming will destory us in 20 years was a planted hoax by a reporter in Edmonton. He wanted to see if the Guardian would fall for the most absurd story so long as it bashed Bush.

[trajanus_red]

For more info on this, a great site: http://www.iceagenow.com

[Indie]

According to Jimmy Carter's Global 2000 Report which I read in full from the library back in the 80's, we should all already be long dead.

[Marie]

You are gonna love this link! LOL!

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9941/

[aquila48]

When they can predict tomorrow's and next week's weather with certainty, then I'll start believing some of these doomsady scenarios.

Till then it's just a bunch of crap.

[Lawgvr1955]

According to Jimmy Carter's Global 2000 Report which I read in full from the library back in the 80's, we should all already be long dead.

If Jimmy had been re-elected we all might have been.

[Marie]

I've been thinking about buying this book. Is it worth the read?

[NorseWood]

It was 92 degrees here in Southern California today . . . or was that just frostbite that I was feeling. Do I need to start chopping down trees for extra firewood, or dig a bigger swimming pool? decisions, decisions, decisions . . .

[djf]

A few years back, I read about scientists studying core drillings from some lake in Canada (the sediments). They could tell the annual flow, temperature, etc.

The cores told a story of an ice age advancing.
Length of time from the earliest indicators that the climate was cooling until full blown complete glaciation:

Ninety years.

[Katya]

"Global Warming", it's a good thing.

[Marie]

I don't know, H2dude. We had a much better garden on Alaska than we did in Wyoming. The biggest difference was the shorter growing season. We could only bring in one or two crops in AK, but we managed to get three in Michigan. Bigger and better animals, too. I think that the cold helped keep the parasites down. (I know there's a liberal joke in here somewhere...)

All-in-all, it's workable. And I have awakened to find my house COMPLETELY covered in snow, roof and everything. I'll never forget my father's swearing when he opened the front door to find a wall of white. The roof didn't cave in and the snow actually acted like insulation in the house. I do think that we'll have to adapt to less vegetation, though. The eskimos did it without farming, so can we.

[Marie]

One more thing. Don't forget green houses, hydroponics and grow lights. We really can grow anything, anywhere.

[CWOJackson]

We wouldn't have any of this creeping ice sheet problem if the President would only stop kissing Canadian butt and build a wall along our norther border!

[Doctor Stochastic]

I think people living in Manitoba might notice. The lack of snow melting would be a big clue as would the Canada Day (aka Dominion Day) snowstorms.

The glaciation could be triggered by various things that cause increased snow in the higher latitudes. The only thing new about this article is that people are beginning to notice the speed with which these climate changes occur.

[HamiltonJay]

Well I don't know about your cooling linked to the magnetic field flip, but we are seeing a flip of the magnetic field right now.... based on models we are well on our way to the north and south manetic poles flipping very soon.

I have never seen any suggestion that this flipping coincided with ice ages... but it is certainly an interesting theory if the dates do coincide.

[LiteKeeper]

No one really knows what causes ice ages.

For those who are interested:
What about the Ice Age?

[Travis McGee]

Stories like this make me want to keep the mothership, currently welded to the dock occupying an expensive hole in the water in San Diego.

[rock58seg]

It won't silence them. They will turn it into nouvelle cuisine.