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

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

[InShanghai]

kiss the human race good-bye

Yeah right! Can any journalist resist the temptation to take every idea to the extreme?

My theory on all of this is that the Earth's magnetic field will continue to weaken. The weakening shield (the magnetic field creates a shield against most of the sun's deadly radiation) causes the ozone to fluctuate year after year: global warming theory cites this as evidence. However, the poles will eventually flip, and during that time the heat generated will cause gases to rise up into the atmosphere, and into space. This will cause the surface to cool, just like an evaporative cooler. When the poles stablize, the Earth will go into a rapid cool-down mode causing another ice-age. Life will change on the planet, and humankind will continue to endure. The good Earth, being God's creation, will continue working perfectly like it always has.

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[marktwain]

Can we stop it? We can’t even stop a single snow storm. Imagine trying to stop an ice age that’s going to go on for tens of thousands of years.

Give us 50 years to develop nanotechnology and the inevitable cheap space travel that follows it, and we will stop a new ice age or ignore it and colonize the rest of the solar system as we please.

[Lawgvr1955]

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

Right. And if I recall correctly, food and water would be more valuable than oil, with American and a few other contries having an OPEC like food cartel. And all of that was to happen before the 70's was out. Heck at the time I figured I'd be lucky to be alive in 1980.

Made it!!

[Double Tap]

Well, actually, food and water are more valuable than oil now. At least they cost more.

[Noumenon]

Well, there goes the neighborhood.

Clark Fork ice dam / Lake Missoula bump.

[Lawgvr1955]

Water costs more than wine when you buy it by the Evian bottle. But overall food and water are still pretty good bargains.

I'm so wealthy I use water to bathe in.

[Joe Hadenuf]

How far will the ice fields extend? In North America they will most likely reach as far south as present day Chicago. But they may go further. And this isn’t going to be some picture postcard winter landscape. At the height of the last ice age, the ice fields covering much of North America were up to two miles thick. So, expect the great northern cities, such as New York, Boston, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, etc.

Aren't these places covered with ice most of the time anyway?

[microgood]

You cannot go into an ice age when you are still coming out of one. Those are the rules.

[Double Tap]

So is oil. A bargain that is.

[Double Tap]

So is oil. A bargain that is.

[Viking2002]

Here's to hoping. I've had the urge to buy a snowmobile for several years now...... :-)

[Pharmboy]

Too funny...loved that movie.

[Phsstpok]

I am a firm believer in the theory of man made global warming. However, I also belive that we are WAY overdue for an ice age. I think that man made global warming is the only thing holding that ice age at bay.

So throw another log on the fire!!!!

Read Larry Niven and Jerry Porunelle's (and ?? Barnes?) Fallen Angels for a full (and very funny) treatment of this idea. What happens if the Greens take over, insititute their draconian eco laws, and the result is glaciers in Cleveland? Great book. They skewer every leftist sacred cow that there is. William Proxmire is the root of all evil, when you get right down to it. One of my favorite books. And they aucitioned off character parts to SF fans at conventions to raise money for good causes. I recognize over half of the characters. Fun stuff.

[Freeper john]

Hey if it will bury the English under 200 feet of ice, BRING IT ON!!

[Ole Okie]

We'd better get ANWR drilled now. Otherwise, well depth will be increased by several thousand feet of ice, and it might not be economically feasible. And we must have more hydrocarbon energy to keep warm in the new ice age.

Drill ANWR NOW! Before the coming glaciation makes it much more difficult.

On the other hand, maybe we can spread carbon black on the glaciers and melt them.

Maybe.

And maybe somebody just wants some new gummit grants to study this new/old phenomenon. Global warming has about run its course, and it's time for new funding for this. Can we afford to wait?

Oh, I was so looking forward to a warmer clime. Now this!

[Frank_Discussion]

Hey! Where'd you get my driver's license photo?

[Johnny_Cipher]

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

Interesting - I didn't know that.

If they ever catch him alive, he should be sentenced to a life term in a lovely little garden spot called Adak Alaska instead of Gitmo.

[M Kehoe]

I can't wait to ice skate on Lake Okeechobee.

5.56mm

[kabar]

Check this site out: http://www.iceagenow.com/

[Jimmy Valentine]

At lerast I won't have to pay big prices for ice at the seven eleven.

Gin & Tonic ping!

Regards,