Bering Strait influenced ice age climate patterns worldwide

National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ^ | Jan 10, 2010 | Unknown

[GSP.FAN]

The scientists will not commit to anything because then it can be proven or disproven.
Al Gores movie predicted huge Hurricane seasons and for 2 yrs they are at the lowest,so he puts a disclaimer to say this was built on faulty research..
When you tell a lie it is better to shut up and say nothing else for fear of being found out..

[blam]

If it's not one thing, it's another.

[ThanhPhero]

We seem to have a bit of a cart/horse confusion here.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[El Gato]

I really saw nothing in the report that portrayed man’s involvement in climate change.

Apparently only in *this* climate change.

The pattern was finally broken about 34,000 years ago, the point in Earth's 95,000-year orbital cycle at which the planet was so far from the Sun at certain times of year that the ice sheets continued to grow even when the Bering Strait closed. When the orbital cycle brought Earth closer to the Sun in the northern winter, the ice sheets retreated sufficiently about 10,000 years ago to reopen the strait. This helped lead to a relatively stable climate, nurturing the rise of civilization.

Implying that this warming cycle is somehow different than the previous several, where mankind was barely around. The last "peak" in temperatures, when it got warmer than it is now, was about 125,000 years ago, the ones before that which were about 240,000, about 330,000 and 410,000 years ago respectively.

After the peak, comes the ice age, and we are overdue.

[colorado tanker]

I'm surprised this penetrated the "Team"'s defenses because it supports the cyclical nature of the glacial/interglacial cycles and leaves mankind out of the explanation. I remarked to someone the other day it would be nice if somehow industrial civilization has turned that cycle off so we don't have to go into the next ice age, but it's hubristic to think man has accomplished that.

Of course, only a bunch of overeducated and overpaid dummies would think that's a bad thing - that we've stumbled on a way not to have a frozen planet.

[decimon]

...that we've stumbled on a way not to have a frozen planet.

That's the neat part of this. The possibility of not having to move, if you will, heaven and earth to avoid the disaster of a much warmer or cooler planet. AGW aside, climate will change.

[colorado tanker]

Yes, climate is constantly changing and always has. It's scary to think that according to the ice core data we're very near the peak of this interglacial.

Will our civilization survive a glacial era? New England, Manhattan and the Upper Midwest under the ice. Most of the most productive farmland in North America under the ice or tundra. Britain and Northern Europe uninhabitable. Wars raging as populations move south. It could get really ugly.