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 civilizationhappening 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 cant 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 Germanys Alfred Wegener Institute. Those scientists concluded that existing models may have underestimated the sensitivity of the oceans system. Even a relatively small change in the oceans 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 Im concerned, this is just another contribution to the AGW hoax fraud.
Maybe that’s why 90% of the glaciers around the world are growing!
Spoken in Jeff Foxworthy voice...
IF you are a highschool teenage boy....
And your WIFE tells you you are too OLD for sex...
You just might be a redneck ;)
My understanding is, that we’re in an interglacial period. According to what I’ve read, glacial periods are very long, and the interglacial warm periods, not so much.
And yea, 4WD sucks on ice. Make sure you get chains. Guess studded snow tires will be making a comeback.
Countdown is on: < 500 days to get it corrected or we’re all DOOMED! Or so says some french foreign minister puff with his inimitable side kick lurch f’n kohn-heinz-kerry standing next to him drooling. Carry on there ghenghis. My solution is to have jenn-aire or rheem contract with the govt to send a fleet of hvac units to Alaska to help re-freeze them melting glass-ee-ers. Using wind and solar of course.
See also Rainbow 6 by Clancy and State of Fear by Crichton
Because we all freeze to death whenever we turn on the oven range.
“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.”
And of course the solution is????? Notice how EVERY climate change worshipper can pontificate what the problem is, but when asked what their solution is the same answer comes out of each ones mouth.. “You are a racist.”
Every conversation I have with my lib friends returns to global warming. They give me the same George Bush crap and its the republicans fault. Of course when I remind them that the republicans don’t control China or India they seem to think that is irrelevant. Of course I then have to remind them that global warming doesn’t stay still over one country and only impact women, children and every liberal victim group out there.
That leads to, “we need to be responsible for our actions.” That’s when I say, “you mean like how the government gives free abortions because women don’t know how not to get pregnant so it isn’t their fault?” That fight turns into why I hate women, despite my 26 year marriage to my wife who I love dearly.
But like squirrels I bring them back to their original topic. Then I lay the kicker on them, aside from the requisite, “how much will it cost to fix, what exactly will they do to fix it, and my favorite, “what happens if they overcompensate and throw the world into a global freeze, killing everything.”
So I give them my plan, tell them how much it will cost, what it will fix and every risk mitigation strategy. It will end global poverty and hunger to boot. And they then tell me I am an idiot and it won’t work.
Aside from all liberals killing themselves(I tell them this) my plan is simple. It is three pronged and no specifics here. Number 1 - Build desalination plants along Africa’s coast lines and run pipelines throughout the continent. This will bring fresh water everywhere, opening up new economies and ending hunger and poverty in Africa. The benefit of this (I love this part) is all the water taken in will prevent the world from becoming flooded.
Number 2) The millions of acres of crops that will be planted now that there is fresh water will suck up all that bad CO2 and oxygenate the planet.
Finally, The Sinai will be handed over to the Palestinians for them to have their own country. It will be built up as a global model to the world to show all of mankind how alternative energy can power the world. Nothing in the new country will run on fossil fuels with the exception of propane for vehicles. Every residence and business will be built only using solar or wind. Companies from around the world will collaborate on building up the country. Even Israel and Egypt will pitch in and build the Palestinians a big security fence to prevent outsiders from penetrating the new country.
Lastly, the UN will be moved to the new Palestine as a demonstration that it is truly a global organization representing the betterment of all mankind.
The look at me and say the Palestinians would never go for it. I then tell them that they should move there since that is the world they want. I then sit back and quietly drink my beer.
My first experience with Detroit Lockers in a 79 F150 almost took myself and a Vegas Review Journal reporter off the side of a snow covered cliff on Mt. Charlston.
He was actually pro our side so it would have been a bad thing.
“Just picked up my second 4wd vehicle.”
Just in case can it tow an Ark.
What caused the last ice age? What caused it too warm and melt?
I hate it when I do that.
More expounded theory from chicken little wannabe democrat activist scientists whose dreck distills down to less than a small beer fart.
It’s an awful way to go, standing there all frozen as the flames leap up.
“...Dokoupil goes on to cite the 2004 disaster-flick Day After Tomorrow,....”
I always give a lot of credence to a Climate Change Alarmist “Scientist” (and I use the term hestantly) who cites Hollywood climate change pimp’s propaganda movies.
Well we all see the damage freezer burn can cause.
I mean most have known for years that when you close the freezer door that the little man comes out and turns the light off. What isn’t so well known is that he is an evil little cuss and has a liquid nitrogen flamethrower and man is that stuff hot.
Little prick ruined a lot of steak dinners over the years.
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
Freedom is Slavery.
GloBULL warming causes an ice age.
Got into an icepick fight with him the other day.
You know you are dealing with crackpot ‘science’ when you have an undetectable phenomenon (e.g. global avg temp increase over the last decade) which is claimed to cause effect A (heat death of the Earth) and to cause its opposite (global ice catastrophy).
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