Posted on 10/08/2007 2:19:57 PM PDT by RobFromGa
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Sprinkling coal dust on glaciers should have some effect. Cooling down the earth would be tricker.
Mrs VS
Probably the night Al Gore hosts the premiere of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH II at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Someone please e-mail this to ALGORE. I’d much rather be warm.
It was excellent.
And it gives the BIG PICTURE that so many global warming alarmists utterly lack.
The Ice Age is already here but is having some trouble kicking in. When it does, which could be right now, it could snap over in very short order.
I remember all the talk about a “Coming Ice Age” in the mid to late 1970’s. Sprinkling coal dust on glaciers was seriously suggested.
The ice age scenario is far scarier than global warming — although alarmists would have us believe that global warming will cause an ice age too.
The ONLY way to prevent the next ice age is to mobilize ALL mankind to embark on a massive program to build and use SUV’s. We must create a whole new carbon credit industry, whereby consumers who do not create and release carbon and buy credits which would the be offset by those that can and will release carbon into our environment.
But will condo prices go down?
Global warming > global cooling
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/99989/global_warming_a_lot_of_hot_air.html Go here for even more chortles at the Global Warming/Cooling Chicken Littles.
We haven’t fully recovered from that last ice age yet. My glaciology professor said we have a little way to go yet before the turn around. All we will see in our lifetimes is just wierd weather - more unpredictable and warmer. Climate doesn’t change as fast as weather. No need to panic.
You look at this data, and you see what the past patterns were, repeating over and over.
The TV show was right, this pattern will likely repeat again. And if we are inducing a warming trend at all, it is probably not a bad thing at all.
A more sensationalist approach is "The Coming Global Superstorm" cobbled up by Whitley Strieber and Art Bell. It is a concoction of science and fiction intended to entertain.
The lesson I draw from the two works is that climate change is the normal state on Earth. We are fortunate in our capability to see a longer horizon than previous generations. It's something that we can't do a damn thing to change. What we can do is prepare for the inevitable. Put our critical infrastructure for food, power and living arrangements in a location that will remain habitable as the ice age arrives.
Felix notes that the only real difference in an ice age is a drop of temperature sufficient for the collection of snow to be unable to completely melt off. That results in a net increase in snow and ice year over year. Seattle, WA was once under a mile of ice. The area where I live in southeast Idaho was untouched by glaciers. See his book for a view of the prior edge of glaciation across North America.
Does methane count? Because if it does, I'm going to grow beans and cabbage, then can the beans and make the cabbage into sauerkraut. I'll make a fortune (and a bit of noise).
P.S. Does lighting up the methane add or subtract from your carbon credits?
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