Broken Ice Dam Blamed For 300-Year Chill

New Scientist ^ | 1-10-2006 | Kurt Kleiner

[mmercier]

I just found a slate panel in a skid that has what appears to be a giant piece of elodia fossilized in in.

I took it home, it is beautiful.

My wife thinks I am a nutter.

[blam]

Ice Age Glacial Lakes

[gathersnomoss]

Better white wine.

[djf]

Cool.

There's a place near me in Wash state (near Black Diamond) that has alot of sandstone with fossilized maple leaf impressions.

Maybe I'll get ambitious one of these days and go get some.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Some researchers suggest that global warming and glacial melting might one day change ocean salinity enough to cause a similar disruption in ocean currents."

How is that a model that shows that global warming caused global cooling is proof that humans are now causing global warming?

[xcamel]

um.. no kidding...

[Chickensoup]

These lakes were held in place by ice?

[Chickensoup]

What is that picture?

[mlc9852]

Yeah, kinda like evolution.

[mlc9852]

I admit I didn't know that. Thanks. When I think of ice age I imagine a climate where it is very cold year around. I assume that would be wrong - lol.

[mlc9852]

How "sudden" is sudden?

[Clemenza]

Just Dam(n).

[razorback-bert]

I like comets.

Scientists at Cardiff University, UK, believe they have discovered the cause of crop failures and summer frosts some 1,500 years ago. The answer? A comet colliding with Earth.

http://www.50connect.co.uk/index.asp?main=http%3A//www.50connect.co.uk/50c/articlePages/genealogy_index.asp%3Fsc%3Dhist%26aID%3D9555

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Large rocks the size of Volkswagens

I believe the scientific term is ">1 VU rocks"
(VU - Volkswagen units)

[Nevermore]

Wait-so, many thousands of years ago there was this global cooling that caused an devastating ice age, and then there was this global warming broke up all that ice, and there was this catastrophe that caused global cooling again, and then it warmed up again, and...and...this teaches us what about extreme and potentially devastating global weather cycles? That they are natural? That they are somewhat self-correcting?
In the words of Vinnie Barbarino, "I'm so confused!!!"
Or maybe it's as Horshack said: "What is, is. What was, will be. What will be was, but will be again."
Deep thoughts...

[From many - one.]

In upper Manhattan there's exposed mica schist also with the glacial striations.

[blam]

"I like comets."

I do too.

Professor Stephen Oppenheimer believes it was a comet impact that began the end of the last Ice Age.

[whd23]

A frozen Klingon from "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" of course.

[mysterio]

I broke the dam.

[Noumenon]

"We coulda had a V8!"