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To: RobFromGa
You can find a nice exposition on the topic from Robert Felix. His book, "Not by Fire, but by Ice" details a large number of measured cycles. He believes a large number of those cycles are currently converging toward the start of another ice age. Well documented and researched.

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.

19 posted on 10/08/2007 2:39:54 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
Didn’t Whitley Strieber publish a book in 1970s about how he went joy riding with aliens? ( and I am not talking about the kind that “do jobs Americans won’t do”!)
24 posted on 10/08/2007 2:47:03 PM PDT by Reily
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