Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age ( And that is a good thing!)

watts up with that? ^ | January 8, 2012 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[AlexW]

Fat chance....The next ice age will come when it wants to.
I am sick of these faux and pseudo climate scientist.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

104 Responses to Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And just posted this:

Scripps blockbuster: Ocean acidification happens all the time — naturally

[quantim]

Climate change sucks.

[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[TigersEye]

I somewhat doubt that all the CO2 we could possibly create would keep the next ice age from happening. But it is nice to see someone talking about the other side of the climate coin re CO2 for a change. Does anyone really think that 90,000 years of bitter cold and constant raging winds is going to be a good thing?

[pallis]

I seriously doubt it.

[smokingfrog]

[Jack Hydrazine]

It’ll delay it by about, oh, a day at most.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

We’ve been in an ice age for 3 million years or so.

What’s coming is the next glaciation.

And the trivial amount of CO2 in our atmosphere is not going to delay it.

[Born to Conserve]

Since there seems to be some confusion about all this, I’ll explain it for all you scientists and activists.

It’s going to get really cold. There will be really cool things to find on the beaches as the oceans recede. We’ll all be dead of old age by then, and so will be our grandchildren and theirs.

Oh, and if you believe we didn’t land on the moon, that the WTC was imploded, or that homeopathy works, take some Thorazine.

[Rocky]

One thing liberals can all agree on: We’re doomed!!!!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

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[aruanan]

Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age ( And that is a good thing!)

Well, perhaps they'll delay the next period of glaciation in the current ice age.

[sr4402]

One thing liberals can all agree on: We’re doomed!!!!

Yeah. I remember Global Cooling in the 70s. An Ice Age was coming to kill mankind. But Global Cooling died it's death when the predictions (and computer models) failed.

After this it was Global Warming, there would be no polar bears, no snow in England and hurricanes galore hitting the United States. None of that happened, so Global Warming had to die.

Right now it's called Global Climate Change with warnings of Apocalyptic disasters in 2012.

But now, Possible Ice Age? Perhaps they are going to trot out Global Cooling again?

This reminds me of the Boy who Cried Wolf...

[aruanan]

The weird thing is that virtually all the effects of CO2 concentration on temperature is accomplished over the first 80-100ppm, after that it's an increasingly small effect with increasingly larger amounts of CO2. As far as its correlation with temperature change goes, four times between 60 to 20 thousand years before present, it's bumped up between 600-1200 years after an increase in warmth. But temperature can crash abruptly in the midst of higher atmospheric CO2 which then usually takes much longer to decrease afterwards. The general trend over the past 175 million years has been to an increasingly poor CO2 concentration. And over the last 500 million years, the three periods with highest atmospheric CO2 were relatively cool. Over the same 500 million years the lag between temperature increase and CO2 increase ranges between 1000-5000 years.

[Sherman Logan]

Since bolide impacts cannot be called up to order

Actually, they can. Our present technology is adequate to allow us to "steer" comets to impact with the earth.

Major possible negative side-effects, of course, depending on where the comet impacts.