“Man will modify his living arrangements to survive whatever comes.”
To a degree that is true. If a true ice age occurs while mankind is still around (and I think that is probably likely) it will be a mess.
Pretty tough to modify thousands of feet of ice covering the cities from Seattle to Manhattan. (To Oslo and Moscow and Seoul?).
Migrations of huge numbers of people, poor growing conditions worldwide (cold and dry), etc. Lots of wars going on, etc. It wouldn’t be an extinction event, but it would thin out the herd quite a bit.
And the worst part is, the scientific effort is being spent on “stopping” global warming. It should be spent on a open analysis of the true climate changes, and looking at how to adapt to changes (warmer or colder) in the climate. (Farming techniques, cold-weather crops, etc.)
Hopefully, the thrashing about in climate science will reap some rewards in terms of averting the worst consequences when the next ice age comes. As it is, now, it’s just embarrassing.
[And the worst part is, the scientific effort is being spent on “stopping” global warming. It should be spent on a open analysis of the true climate changes, and looking at how to adapt to changes (warmer or colder) in the climate. (Farming techniques, cold-weather crops, etc.)]
Soon as that can be used to RAISE TAXES. It’s all about money and power.
The left is going to hafta find a way to extricate their sorry asses from the global warming fiasco and insert them into the global cooling/ice age/we’re all gonaa die if we don’t raise taxes scenario with some elaborate spin.
Suspect by the time the ice sheets start moving south, there may not be much left to worry about. We really have no clue as to the physical global climate patterns that need to develop for Ice Age glaciers to grow as extensive as they have in the past. Just think about the physics involved for a little bit. We could be talking some huge and serious problems. There is a whole lot of snow required to develop a mile high wall of ice. That means a whole lot of water is coming out of those oceans and dumping down on high latitudes. May also mean coincidental excessive amounts of rain for the tropics.