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To: decimon

OK - so what caused the previous ice ages and what was the cause of them melting???

The last one was around 25,000 years ago ... what caused that one to melt?


5 posted on 12/17/2008 2:19:06 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer
OK - so what caused the previous ice ages and what was the cause of them melting???

The last one was around 25,000 years ago ... what caused that one to melt?

Mastodon flatulence.

7 posted on 12/17/2008 2:21:01 PM PST by decimon
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To: SkyDancer

The frist SUV. Granted, it was made of sticks, twine, and leaves...


8 posted on 12/17/2008 2:21:51 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: SkyDancer

probably solar cycles that were uncharted then- or maybe they were charted

the mayans and egyptians were actually pretty sophisticated at the physical science


13 posted on 12/17/2008 2:25:11 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: SkyDancer
. . .what caused that one to melt?

There was a clan of cavemen--the Al Gorestone tribe blowing a lot of hot air.

19 posted on 12/17/2008 2:31:37 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: SkyDancer

If we’re cooling without industrialization, is that not confirmation that we’re cooling (with industrial pollution output declining)?


20 posted on 12/17/2008 2:32:12 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: SkyDancer
First, an understanding ~ we are still in an Ice Age. It's been going on for about 2 million years. We are presently in an "interglacial". Still, even during the periods of maxium glaciation (about 80,000 years long) ice lobes can and do melt down and disappear in various regions.

The result is a see-saw type event ~ sometimes one child pumps harder and his end of the board dominates, then the other child gets an advantage and his end dominates. Still, the see-saw continues to, well, see-saw. Up and down, up and down, with a general trend line of "down" for a while, then "up".

We are very near one of those tipping points where the next maximum glaciation is OVERDUE and it looked like things were still warming up.

From what we know of how the interglacials end, that happens immediately after a period of maximum warmth ~ then in a few short years the ice comes back.

U of Wisconsin now says we've been holding back the ice ~ obviously we must burn more coal.

Still, looking over the fossil fuel reserves, we don't have 100,000 years worth to take us all the way through the next cycle.

Something and somebody will have to give!

30 posted on 12/17/2008 2:53:04 PM PST by muawiyah
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