[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..

[Spruce]

Too Much!

[listenhillary]

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

[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)

[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.

[mhking]

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

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[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.

[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.

[hosepipe]

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