It'd be great if we ended up in another ice age.
I'd personally laugh about it.
Last I read, the previous Ice Age was supposedly preceded by a marked rise in global temp before crashing.
And this was long before the eee-vil SUV and long before man fiddled with coal or other fuels.
*chuckle*
There are guys here who are versed in this stuff, so I'll ping some guys who are likely to knwo, or know someone who does.
I suspect that the Earth is doing it's normal cycle of shifting weather patterns.
Similar to precession of the constellations, Earth's climate also shifts.
There are places in Africa that used to get monsoon rains, monsoon rains that now occur many miles further east.
So I'm not surprised by glaciers melting away in one place or another.
Astronomer, Physicist, anything you guys have run across on this at all, or anyone you know run across this stuff lately?
Here's a good article on the subject:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123013,00.html
From some Physic Profs in Col. they said if all of the water on and above the earth were to suddenly combine, the water level could be 6 feet above mount everest.
Yeah, I think this round of global warming started something like 300 years ago, so the only question is whether or not man is having an additional effect on it.
I believe the majority of the scientific community thinks not, but the majority of the media and Hollywood thinks yes.
It would not be great, because it would almost certainly mean widespread human death. Global warming, by contrast, would make the Earth generally more hospitable to life than it is now, as evidenced by the fossil record.
It has long been my opinion that the observed changes in Earth's climate are due to changes in the sun.