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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.

9 posted on 10/08/2007 2:30:57 PM PDT by RightWhale (50 years later we're still sitting on the ground)

A very unusually long warm period for sure, and it had nothing to do with mankind. Look how short the past "recent" warm periods were, mere spikes.

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.

18 posted on 10/08/2007 2:38:01 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares

Depending on how we define an "interglacial", and recognizing that even the long period of glaciation comes in pulses of ice and interludes of less ice, we are probably 5,000 or so years OVERDUE!

Always remember to ignore the Younger Dyrass period. The greater part of the meltdown had already happened when a disaster came along, broke up and precipitously melted a large but otherwise residual ice sheet in Canada, and fostered yet another serious freeze in Europe and North America (through a variety of mechanisms).

So what is it that's holding the cold back?

Most likely agricultural practices, particularly irrigation, that warm the lower atmosphere and the soil.

This is only going to last so long and then we are going to be so far into the ice cycle that it'll just drop straight down on our heads in the Middle of the Super Bowl.

23 posted on 10/08/2007 2:42:55 PM PDT by muawiyah

What is “very short order” in geologic terms?

25 posted on 10/08/2007 2:47:58 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Hmm?)

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