NASA: "A Chilling Possibility" Global Warming Could cause Deep Freeze!

NASA ^ | 3/5/04 | NASA

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

And these are the people that we are trusting with tons of money and our future in space.

[pax_et_bonum]

Maybe this would cut down our Texas mosquito population.

[anymouse]

Some scientists believe

I thought science was about proving hypotheses by demonstrating experimental repeatability leading to defining known facts. How about the leftist scientists leave belief to the pious.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Such a dip in temperature would be similar to global average temperatures toward the end of the last ice age roughly 20,000 years ago.

See how many rich Europeans are buying up large tracts of land in Africa to get in on the ground floor of the mass migration of Europe to warmer climes.

As for me, I'll invest in energy and use my profits to buy an island in the Carribean.

[El Gato]

If Algore were elected in 2000 we wouldn't be reading this pap.

Oh I think we would. There were such articles, or their predecessors, which appeared while Slick was Slimebag in Chief. I think this article is pretty even handed, leaving open the question of the cause of the current warming, in fact even leaining a bit away from human causes.

The earth has done it before. The historical records shows several periods of gradual warming, followed by "instant birdseye" (very rapid cooling).

[theDentist]

We're dooooomed!

[Truth666]

Would that help ? Homo sapiens has never experienced an ice age.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Would that help ? Homo sapiens has never experienced an ice age.

Homo sapiens have been around for about 75,000 years.

It was probably the recent ice ages that weeded out Neanderthals from the Cro-Magnon breed from which we descended.

[theDentist]

Well, as long as we're all doomed...

... we might as well have a few cold ones!

[Outlaw76]

All of this stuff is part and parcel of a movie promo:
http://www.thedayaftertomorrow.com/index.php

Have no fear, this will be a part of the Democrats game plan after the movie comes out. Free press for Kerry and other Demo-candidates.

[aught-6]

Ahhh yes, a cruise paid for with someone elses money. That's the good life.

[stevio]

What I really want to know, is it going to rain next week?

[kabar]

Homo sapiens has never experienced an ice age.

The last Ice Age ended about 11,500 years ago. There was also a Little Ice Age 1300-1850 AD.

From Felix: "Global warming is a myth. Most of the things we see happening to our weather lately have nothing to do with global warming. They’re part of a natural cycle. The fact is that ice ages recur in a dependable, predictable cycle that’s about to repeat itself. The next ice age could begin in our lifetimes."

The cycle was discovered in the 1970s by a group called CLIMAP (Climate Long- Range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction). They looked at deep sea cores for the past 500,000 years. During the last half million years, they found, ice ages have begun or ended, abruptly, just like clockwork, about every 11,500 years.

Q. I almost hate to ask this, but when did the last ice age end?

A. That’s the problem. The last ice age ended almost exactly 11,500 years ago. Which means that the next ice age could—no, I say should— begin any day.

[Digger]

Check this site out - http://www.iceagenow.com/

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Well, the price of caves and furs just went up !

[presidio9]

ping

[corkoman]

Buy Florida real estate now before the new ice age drives up prices!!

[ahayes]

The last glaciation of North America ended 10,000 years ago. IIRC the Hudson Bay area is actually rising as the land recovers from the weight of the ice packs.

[Little Pig]

And this is probably the case. And scientists are beginning to see the effects. The problem is they are seeing it through "global-warming" lenses, and must therefore automatically attribute climatic change to their pet theory. The change is actually happening, just not for the reasons stated.


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