Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/03/2009 1:49:11 AM PST by CSA Rebel
In the film, "The Day After Tomorrow," the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now research now suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past.
Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again — and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.
Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300 years. Known by scientists as the Younger Dryas and nicknamed the"Big Freeze," geological evidence suggests it was brought on when a vast pulse of fresh water — a greater volume than all of North America's Great Lakes combined — poured into the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Remember when it used to be simple with global cooling being the result? Then it was global warming? Those climate scientists are finally getting climate crafty by hedging their bets. Now if they would only become climate educated.
This must be the shotgun approach to climate model forecasting?
“What if....what if....what if... “
Sounds great for Florida property values
:)
We are very likely in the second year of a second LITTLE ice age (the thing about sunspots). Real ice ages had cosmic causes and there is nothing like that on the horizon at all.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I saw a show on TV about a year ago that made the case that the earth is entering a mini-ice age. This documentation went on in some detail for about 55 minutes. Then the show did an abrupt about face and the last 5 minutes said this ice age is all being caused by global warming. Thank you and good night.
They are wrong a great deal of the time in predicitng tomorrow’s weather. Yet they expect us to bet our entire future, and that of our children and grandchildren on what they say the weather will be like in 50 or 100 years.
I’ll pass.
If it would freeze Algore and the moonbats it would be worth all the problems it would cause!
Aaahhhh......It’s going to be warm or cold tomorrow and were all going to die unless we contribute to the Reverend Al at the church of Gore.
“People assume that we’re political, that we’re either pro-global-warming or anti-global-warming, when it’s really neither,” Patterson added. “Our goal is just to understand climate.”
Problem is pal, you all have taken a HUGE hit in credibility. Nobody is going to believe anything you have to say until you ALL pay penance.
Oh, but they don't mention that at all in the article. Let me contain my surprise...
According to the climate prediction model I’ve developed I predict it will be getting colder if heads and warmer if tails, and my model has at least a 50% chance of being right. ;-)
Don’t worry be happy - likely not as bad as Younger Dryas - one theory for the origin if the fresh water is the an enormous slab of ice the size of Canada slid off the melting glaciers an landed in the Atlantic, also blocking the Gulf current.
Early in the history of mankind, when it would get very hot or very cold, they would claim the sun gods were angry.
This global warming is not far removed from worshipping the sun gods.
Outside of Fredonia, NY you can drive away from Lake Erie up a road that runs up a series of stepped plateaus left by the last glacier as it receded. At the top of the last step the ice was over 5000 feet thick! And to think that all of that came about with very little human interaction.
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