Ancient Drought And Rapid Cooling Drastically Altered Climate

Space Daily - Terra Daily ^ | Jun 23, 2009 | Staff Writers (SPX)

[tricky_k_1972]

Oh your good.

Now thats funny, I don’t care who you are.

[cogitator]

The 8200 year cooling event was similar (but smaller in magnitude) to the Younger Dryas cool period event that marked the beginning of the last 1000 years or so before the commencement of the Holocene. It was due to effects on oceanic circulation from a large influx of fresh water into the North Atlantic.

The 8200-year climate event

LeGrande 2009

Scientists unravel 8,200-year-old climate riddle

Rapid sea level rise and ice sheet response to 8,200-year climate event

etc.

[SunkenCiv]

...and while we’re at it...

[Steve Van Doorn]

I have been meaning to ask you a question.

Since we are coming to the end (within thousands of years) of our interglacial period shouldn't we be paying more attention to the coming glaciation rather then global warming?

doesn't the global warming theory side track us to a real threat coming our way?

[BrewingFrog]

I would think that a more, ahem, “targeted” solution is called for in those pesky situations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment

Always hold the high ground. It makes it easier to drop things on your enemies.

[cogitator]

Since we are coming to the end (within thousands of years) of our interglacial period shouldn't we be paying more attention to the coming glaciation rather then global warming?

The reply below has a link to a presentation discussing the possible onset of the next glacial period, which via a combination of weak Milankovitch forcing and enhanced anthropogenic forcing, is 10s of thousands, not even just thousands, of years off.

So I'm not worried about that very much. My bones will be returned to the atmosphere by then.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2276123/posts?page=24#24