Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh

The Australian ^ | 23 April 2008 | Phil Chapman

[Spktyr]

OMG! Global Warming!

[Billthedrill]

I notice LESS hair growing on my head, what does that mean?

Grass don't grow on a race-track. ;-)

[MeanWestTexan]

Come to West Texas. We used to be forested.

[correctthought]

Its migrated to other parts of your body.

[sr4402]

Don't worry, the New York Times, will switch Climate Change from Global Warming to Global Cooling (like in the 70s) any time now.

[MeanWestTexan]

People currently with beach front property will be a long way from shore.

[colorado tanker]

All of recorded human history occurred during this interglacial cycle. During an ice age, major centers like London, New York and Chicago would be under the ice or so near as to be uninhabitable. A huge amount of arable land would be lost. It's unclear whether our civilization could survive that.

We know from archaeological digs that human life fled to refuges in Europe in southern Spain, Italy and Greece - no significant populations lived north of those. Canada would go under, but the U.S. would only lose New England and the Upper Midwest. 'Course, a lot of land to the south of the ice would become tundra.

If CO2 emissions have somehow managed to alter this almost 2 million year series of cycles that would be a very good thing indeed for the human race, but I personally don't believe it has.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

We did the Ice Age thing back in the 60’s. Still waiting.

From the '60's to now is a spit in the ocean of geologic time. It may be time to invest in Costa Rican real estate or not. Who knows.

[ETCM]

"Hansen & the boys at the NOAA still claimed March 2008 was the 2nd warmest month ever"

That was 2007. March 2008 was .4 F below the 20th century mean (for March). Of course that is based on preliminary data, so Hansen still has time to add some corection algorithm to prove it's actually warming.

[AlexW]

“Sorry, but the world is too overcrowded as it is.”

You can put the entire world population in Alaska with plenty of space per person.

[Vercingetorixbc]

Let's see,... concoct a crisis, provide cure for crisis, crisis ended ahead of schedule, proclaim self victorious.

Nothing wrong with that is there?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“...but the U.S. would only lose New England and the Upper Midwest.”

And Alaska too.

[Bubba_Leroy]

It's still Bush's fault. Bush and those damned SUVs.

Women and minorities will be hardest hit.

[colorado tanker]

Alaska is an intriguing question. It appears that during the last ice age when the sea level was low a substantial part of what is called Beringia was free of ice, although ice blocked the exits south to North America. A population of what became Amerindians stayed there for some time before finding a path to go south.

[Young Werther]

YES!

YES!

YES!

[Boonie]

I wasted some time with a calculator and you can actually put the world’s population in the state of texas and give everyone 1134.96 square feet of space.(The average one bedroom apartment is about 750 sq feet)

[qam1]

Nope, March 2008 was the 2nd warmest according to these jokers

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/monthly.land.90S.90N.df_1901-2000mean.dat

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/mar/mar08.html

March 2008 was .4 F below the 20th century mean here in the USA where if they attempted this BS even the most die hard liberal wouldn't have believed it. So instead they claim there was possibly the greatest heat wave ever in Asia that conveniently happened where no body lives and there are no thermometers.

[4yearlurker]

I agree with you. The world is too crowded. Okay...you go first.

[edcoil]

“The current food shortages are driven by high oil prices and silly use of biofuels.”

While true it is interesting how there was such a balance in these things until the government got involved.

[AFreeBird]

As someone wrote on another thread; We don’t have periods in our planetary history recorded as the great Hot Ages. It’s always Ice Ages.