Big Freeze: Earth Could Plunge into Sudden Ice Age

LiveScience.com ^ | 12/2/09 | Charles Q. Choi

[Brett66]

The could’ve titled this article “We don’t know WTH will happen!”

[tlb]

>>>it was brought on when a vast pulse of fresh water - a greater volume than all of North America’s Great Lakes combined - poured into the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

Since there is no modern Australia-sized inland fresh water sea that could result in a similar pulse, I’m not too worried. The flood through the St Lawrence Seaway into the Atlantic was like a high pressure fire hose cutting the circulatory pattern in half in a matter of days. Even allowing for the claims of the global warmists, the leakage from Greenland is more akin to a dripping faucet spread over decades.

The difference allows the oceans time to adapt.

[Timocrat]

My suggestion is for the United Nations to get the population scientists and the sociologists together and figure out ways to humanely reduce our numbers or level them off at the carrying capacity.

My suggestion is that once they've got together they all commit Seppuku as an example to the rest of us.

[Dick Bachert]

Global Warming guru Algore – wearing his ever present Nobel medal – is seen here en-route to an important “scientific” conference in Nassau hosted by the UN/IPCC where he was to be the keynote speaker.

Topics on the agenda were to have included “Finding a Good Bail Bondsman,” “Not ALL Criminal Lawyers Are Sharks,” “Changing Careers for Dummies,” “You Want Fries With That?,” “How To Encrypt Emails,” “The Best Prison Jobs,” “Getting Along With Your Cellmate” and “Getting Used to Sleeping On Your Back.”

A sudden – and unfortunate – blast of what the “scientist” in charge of the conference termed “global warming” caused the meeting to be rescheduled until Algore can be thawed some time next Spring – assuming there will BE one.

[grey_whiskers]

That's an odd picture, even for South Park.

Can you tell me which episode number it is from?

ManBearPig??

Cheers!

[Scotswife]

is this their new crisis already?

Isn’t this just recycling their crisis from the 70’s.?

[101voodoo]

I’m not concerned. I just picked up a REALLY nifty warm coat at Walmartos, got a great deal on it to.

The rack it was on had a sign reading “Don’t look for the union label”.

Probably why the price was so reasonable.

[101voodoo]

"Oops, I forgot the dreaded acid rain."p> LOl, who can forget the eminent scientist and Hollywood star Ted Danson as he proclaimed in the middle 1970's that all our oceans would be dead, lifeless in 10 years due to acid rain.

I think it was also about that time when Time mag or Newsweak mag ran a cover story proclaiming an ice age would be upon us in the very near future.

[101voodoo]

"Oops, I forgot the dreaded acid rain."

LOl, who can forget the eminent scientist and Hollywood star Ted Danson as he proclaimed in the middle 1970's that all our oceans would be dead, lifeless in 10 years due to acid rain.

I think it was also about that time when Time mag or Newsweak mag ran a cover story proclaiming an ice age would be upon us in the very near future.

[autumnraine]

It’s from the Global Warming episode where Cartman and Stan horse around on a boat and bust the beaver dam, flooding the town of Beaverton. It’s got a lot of really great references to Katrina (Who told them to build their town right below a beaver dam anyway?) and “The day after tommorrow” which is where the pic comes from. It’s a spoof on the guy saying “Everyone below this line is dead...”

I think the episode is “The day before the day after tommorow”.

Here is the clip this pic came from.
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155009/?tag=Map

[Clara Lou]

Well, global warming has been outed, so our new fear is global cooling? How can Al Gore get in on that? His carbon trading business is fading fast. (I hope.)

[hennie pennie]

Gettin’ COLDER out there, LOL *ping*

[mom.mom]

Big Freeze? At least we now know how to warm the earth!

[Billthedrill]

Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again - and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.

It wasn't just a melt before, it was the fracture of an enormous ice dam that flooded the ocean suddenly with the contents of a lake the size of all the present-day Great Lakes put together. These unnamed "scientists" haven't explained that scenario with respect to Greenland. I'll listen happily but then I like fairy tales.

[SunkenCiv]

Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months
European Science Foundation | November 30, 2009 | AlphaGalileo
Posted on 12/02/2009 9:26:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2398546/posts

[SunkenCiv]

:') Thanks hennie pennie.

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[SunkenCiv]

Dunno who did it, but this keyword is *excellent*:

• warmmongers

[21twelve]

I have not looked at the science behind the article, but a HUGE ice age lake with a bursting ice dam would bring LOTS of fresh water into the system.

Of course - those lakes aren’t around anymore. I wonder how much volume is in the Greenland ice? I know there is some warming going on below the ice and large floods (some nice big bridge got wiped out a few years ago). But nothing on such a grand scale as this ice age flood.

Out in eastern Washington there are 100+ foot tall and miles long “ripple marks” left over from the ice dam for Lake Missoula failing. Pretty impressive stuff. Just don’t see it happening again. Well, not until we see another ice age.

Perhaps Iceland has the greater potential for a large volcanic event - but not as much ice there as in Greenland.

[Pontiac]

Anybody know how to turn off a volcano?

Throw a Manbearpig into it.

I think it would throw him back.

Even volcanoes have standards. (Do you suppose Manbearpig is a virgin?)

[21twelve]

Water Volumes of:

Great Lakes:.........5,438 cubic miles
Greenland:.........579,600 cubic miles
IceLand:..............794 cubic miles

So, this ancient lake had about the same amount of water as the Great Lakes. Iceland would have the most likely case of a “rapid melting” what with its combination of volcanoes and ice. But - a drop in the bucket even if somehow all of that ice could melt at once.

And inspite of a possible “hot spot” beneath Greenland, it is not known for recent volcanic eruptions.