There have been many.
Gonna need heating oil and coal to do it.
Assuredly, this is a rhetorical question given via this article?
Of course humans can live thru or survive one......and have.
There is unquestionable archeological evidence to suggests and supports such.
“Earth was also much drier, and sea level was much lower(opens in new tab), since most of the Earth’s water was trapped in the ice sheets.”
I’d rather have global warming than cooling. Another ice age would vastly reduce the number of places to live in (mile-high ice over Seattle), and the lack of crops would cause mass starvation.
No doubt wars (nuclear war?) would result as nations take over other countries as the ice pushes them out and the cropland is needed to feed their people.
I’m guessing the southern states of America would be a winner with lots of new folks heading south. Still would have to feed them though with a world-wide drought going on for thousands of years.
So are we gonna get more rain or moraine?
Well duh, of course we can. We are in the middle of a 2 1/2 million-year-old ice age called the Pleistocene and WE ARE STILL HERE. There’s nothing stupider than a government funded climatescientist” (excepting neocon troll Freepers).
We are still in one.
“ could humans live through one?’
Humanity yes, most humans a BIG NO.
Just consider many experts are saying we will have famine on earth next year at a level not seen in our lives. The causes apparently:
1. COVID that killed 1% max of victims
2. Supply chain issues
3. Inept/evil politicians
4. A relatively small war in the Ukraine
Now compare that to a sudden resurgence of an ice age and you suddenly lose the agriculture in all of Canada, most of the US breadbasket, much of Russia and other vast areas will get drier.
Even if unproductive areas like the Sahara suddenly started getting more rain the soil is not ready for how many years or the infrastructure developed for ag.
As far as the idea we would suddenly become motivated to work together and approach the challenge scientifically—-hahaha. We are in a time when some places of higher learning and large numbers of people believe men can give birth. A recent poll showed almost 40% of young Americans ID as LGBTQA+- whatever (generation “Z”?).
I guess it boils down to a question of how fast cooling would develop.
https://www.globalcitizen.org/fr/content/world-running-out-of-food-by-2023/
.....and could humans live through one?
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Hmmm, sounds like the plot line for a book....
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/we-who-survived_sterling-noel/14469169/#edition=59458361&idiq=52322486
“The snow began on a Saturday. It was a cold, brooding day in September of 2203. The world’s leading scientists-grimly aware of the monstrous new age of ice that would close around the Earth and bury the human race alive-had issued their warnings. But the governments had ignored them, issued bland reassurances and berated the scientists for their alarmist cries of doom. For several years, though the snows started and stopped, the winters grew longer and the days colder. Then one day the snow began to fall-and did not stop.”
600 human generations ago (20 plus a little more being a generation) sea level was 1,000 feet lower. Some periods the rate of seal level rise was astonishingly rapid - far more so than the advance or retreat of ice sheets. So the author has an interesting hook to get eyeballs, but spends little effort in examining human adaptive behavior or explaining the lack of data that may be examined (Humans like to be near the water and their settlement locations from 11,000 years ago are far down beneath the briney deep.
The glaciers did not cover the entire earth. It was temperate towards the equator. There have been several “ice ages.”
It’s amusing when I hear about how it’s getting warm—as if this never happened before.
A tiny bit of education would help those idiots realize they are not “special.” Eventually, we will go extinct…just like the dinosaurs and Neanderthals.
We’re about to learn if we can live thru a cold season this Winter, and with the cost of heating fuels I don’t think everyone is going to make it.
I think humans have never been as capable of adapting to and mitigating an ice age, or “climate change” as we are today. I am not claiming there would be no disruptions, only that we are technologically poised to be able to handle them better than any period of human history that we know of.