Antarctic ice core data from NOAA website.
Ahhhh, that would be a good thing.
An Ice age would be a real catastrophe for human civilization.
I think this is just cover for their failed gore-bull warming meme.
I guess the MSM will have to explain how this is terrible.
Ice age is much worse than warming. Much, much worse.
Save the planet, drive a 4x4 SUV!
This was the plot of “Fallen Angels.”
This interglacial period has lasted longer than most.
It is much harder to survive cold than it is to survive warmer temperatures. The earth has been much warmer than now since the last Ice Age and humanity thrived.
Try to survive the next Ice Age without burning something to stay alive.
Now just,wait a second there, Bud. We've been told a gazillion time that, once you hit the dreaded "tipping point," things spin catastrophically out of control due to positive feedback. If we were "nudged" (that commie word, again) above the tipping point, then why are global climate systems still in equilibrium?
Have the warmists been lying to us? Say it ain't so!
This article is unreliable.
“...to avoid future ice ages that could have started 50,000 or 90,000 years from now.”
Interglacial periods are relatively short, lasting 20-40,000 years. We are very likely already on the downslope of this one, having already had the warmest period during the Holocene, with a new ice age coming in 10-25,000 years.
Anyone who believes covering a third to a half of the Northern Hemisphere with a mile of ice is better than even the greatest predicted rise of the seas over the coasts is an idiot.
The sad part is that, as Climate Change skeptics have said for years, Man just doesn’t have that much control over the environment. If an Ice Age is coming, we aren’t going to be able to stop it by driving SUVs and burning coal.
If Milankovitch cycles are the cause of the periodic ice ages, and those cycles have not changes in billions of years, then why is the 100,000 cycle limited to the past 4 million years, and not seen before for the prior billions of years?
Well. Good thing muh snowblower runs on regular gas.
A Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’, eh?
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Antarctic ice core data from NOAA website.
The next global ice age will come and there’s nothing we can do about ,these people think the planet earth is the size of their Brain
Actually, the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere follows a warming trend, not the other way around. When there is global heating, carbon dioxide levels rise because of it. Their research is faulty, and does not follow the historical record. Industrial revolution had nothing to do with "missing" a major ice age. It's the Sun.
Not just "agriculture", but I seem to recall seeing research specifically pointing to the cultivation of rice by irrigation. Apparently, the shallow water standing over broad swathes of earth (artificial swamps) causes the emission of MUCH more CO2, but probably also of methane, a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
This is funny. Way back in college in the 80s I took a geology course. The professor actually cried in class because he was afraid for the world. He loved greenhouse gases because he said they were saving the world from extinction. I don’t remember too much about it but he loved air pollution because he said it was saving the planet.
If there were tipping points, we woulbd have tipped in the past and there would be no life.
The idea of “tipping points” is one of positive feed-back loops. Think of a snowball rolling downhill accumulating snow and getting bigger with each roll.
We are fortunate, one might say blessed, that the earth has a negative feed-back loop that moderates excesses.
As the earth warms, perhaps due to greater solar activity, the oceans warm and there is increased evaporation. Evaporation takes energy out of the air and cools. You experience this when you sweat and a dry breeze blows by.
The increased water vapors from the oceans mean greater cloud formation. More clouds provide more cooling shade. Also, the top-side of the clouds act as mirrors reflecting sunlight back to space.
The process works in reverse to moderate cooling temperatures.