Posted on 09/11/2015 12:55:29 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
“Scientists fear ‘Day After Tomorrow’ climate change,” shouts the headline on MSNBC. According to two new studies, global warming could (supposedly) shut down ocean circulation. This could drop vast stretches of Asia into drought and expose the entire Northern Hemisphere to severe ice and snow. “This change would be sudden and sharp enough to roil civilization—happening in as little as three years and resulting in as much as an 18-degree Fahrenheit drop in average temperatures,” says this article by Tony Dokoupil.
Dokoupil tells the story of Jud Partin, a geophysicist at the University of Texas, who gathered new geological data and re-examined the deep past. Partin and his colleagues looked at an earlier, all-natural melt-off that happened about 12,000 years ago, says Dokoupil. “Known as the ‘Younger Dryas,’ the period was defined by a deep chill across the northern latitudes.”
“Ice core studies cited by Partin show an 18-degree Fahrenheit drop in average temperatures across Greenland. New York and London would be slightly warmer, he believes, but still frigid with average temperature drops of at least a dozen degrees.” “It would definitely change everyday life in Europe and North America,” Partin told MSNBC. “Daily life would be drastically affected in these areas, in ways I can’t imagine or begin to address.”
Dokoupil goes on to cite the 2004 disaster-flick “Day After Tomorrow,” then quickly cites a different study by scientists from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute. Those scientists concluded that existing models may have underestimated the sensitivity of the ocean’s system. Even a relatively small change in the ocean’s salinity, the researchers wrote, “corresponds to a significant temperature decrease of up to 40%” across North America and Europe.
Trouble is that Dokoupil throws in enough quotes and references from the movie that you lose track of which part is reality and which is fiction. But the unmistakable takeaway is that global warming, caused by greenhouse gases, could trigger an ice age.
Talk about having it both ways.As far as I’m concerned, this is just another contribution to the AGW hoax fraud.
Just picked up my second 4wd vehicle.
I’m good to go, LOL
Curiously, that’s exactly how I make ice cubes. I pop ice trays filled with water into the stove. I cook it at about 450 degrees for about 90 minutes, and BANG, ICE CUBES!
WOW
these morons just wont give it up!
Sorry, we are not falling for your hoax, and I hope they prosecute you all for the harm you have caused.
In other news, mandatory daily viagra infusion in high school males has led to an outbreak of celibacy.
Warm globally, cool locally!
LOL!
New policy should be if your a wrong on your dire predictions then turn in your science beanie and speak more more....
What demographic do you think MSNBC is shooting for with this new revelation?
They finally got it right.ahole gives terrorists nukes today, they blow up the earth, nuclear winter sets in.
Clone me now!
Al Gore is still screaming that Established Scientific Facts, Prove All Things.
I’m still much more worried about the Muslim invasion than a centigrade rise in temperature.
Gotta cover your bases, I guess.
“...resulting in as much as an 18-degree Fahrenheit drop in average temperatures...”
Phoenix will be perfect.
Do you know something I don’t, nascar? 4WD doesn’t help me at all on ice.
Wasn’t an ice age the big concern before the ‘’Earth Day’’ movement started? I guess they’ve come full circle.
Hey it works for me. Or is it just my lady saying "Go to hell. You are too old!!!".
OK, I'm trying to follow this - "warming causes an ice age", but warming heats up the atmosphere by, well 'warming', so
we're damned if we do and damned if we don't
and they tell me NOW after I just got rid of my SUV.
Well d'uh! Things always freeze when it gets too hot. Right?
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