[antaresequity]

Funny how the coming Armageddon of "Global Warming" is anything but warming. No drought, no sand storms, no dry electrical storms.

But it does include the coming of the new ice age, hail storms the size of Volkswagens, lots of rain and storms...ice and snow...lots of ice and snow...

How the hell does all this fit together? Ice ages, global warming...blah blah blah

I am gonna go out and let my trucks idle for 10 minutes, I'm gonna fire up a barbecue even though I don't have any dogs to que, and to top it off I will flush twice... in protest

[justa-hairyape]

If that movie portrays what happens when Global Warming occurs, how the heck can we tell the difference between Global Warming and Global Cooling ? What would be the observable phenomenon caused by Global Cooling ? Hotter weather in the upper Northern Hemisphere ?

[rmlew]

There is something called the "mid-ocean conveyor belt" that distributes cold highly saline water from around Greenland around the world. Essentially, the cold saline travels along trenches south to Argentina and east to South Africa, where is rounds the cape travels across the Indian ocean, through the Malacas, and into the Pacific, where it heats up and rises to the surface. Supposedly, the route takes about 2000 years. The effect of this is to cool many of the wamer ocean areas, while allowing for the Gulf Stream.
If there is a decrease in the saline content of the North Atlantic, the system will shut down. The effect would be for extremes in weather to occur. Europe and Canada would freeze over, while the tropics would dry out. We would effectively have another ice age. Certain (hysterical) climatologists have postulated that an increase of a few degrees centigrade could cause enough ice to melt for this to occur. I doubt it. It was warmer than today 1000 years ago without an ice age.