Warming To Cause Ice Age? (Liberals Flip-Flop On Global Warning Alert)

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 12/01/05 | Rush Limbaugh

[retrokitten]

Didn't they try this crap in the very late 70's/early 80's? "Nuclear winter" so some garbage?

[Mamzelle]

I read it, and enjoyed it. I'll bet he's taking a lot of heat from the Hollywood set (after all, he writes screenplays) for daring to scoff at the Chicken Littles (even in fiction).

[Born to Conserve]

In a nutshell, they are saying that global warming may cause a cooling of northern Europe in particular, and the northern latitudes in general, which will then trigger a global cooling. The theory has some merit, but it misses the heart of the issue.

The real debate should be whether or not Man has anything to do with the lurking ice age or the global warming that may trigger it. My personal beliefs are that Man's agricultural behavior over the last few millenia has caused higher temperatures, that we may have postponed the inevitable ice age for a little while, and that industry may or may not be adding to the warming.

Our fault or not, we better get used to the idea of an ice age. The aggressive races/cultures/nations will position themselves to have control of the regions with the best climates, and will dominate the new world. I hope western culture has the will to be there.

[DustyMoment]

I'm still waiting for the leftists to explain how come there was global warming as long ago as 55 million years ago and global warming on Mars that is causing the Martian Polar Caps to melt - especially in light of the fact that neither event involves humans, fossil fuels or SUVs.

Could be a long wait.

[BenLurkin]

On the bright side ... the Northwest Passage is open again:

[Lester Moore]

The aggressive races/cultures/nations will position themselves to have control of the regions with the best climates, and will dominate the new world. I hope western culture has the will to be there.

Nogales, Arizona! Here I come!

[rock_lobsta]

We've had ice ages. If you're in France, don't worry about it. You can burn cars! You've got all kinds of cars in France you can burn to stay warm.

See, those muzzies knew what to do!

[Hawk1976]

So it it true! GLOBAL WARMING WILL FREEZE US ALL!

[The Great RJ]

Back in the 1970s the book The Population Bomb predicted we would all die of starvation by the year 2000 if nuclear winter didn't kill us first.

[Dan Evans]

Back in the 1970s the book The Population Bomb predicted we would all die of starvation by the year 2000 if nuclear winter didn't kill us first.

Hey, c'mon. Let's keep our junk science horror scenarios straight. Nuclear winter was a Carl Sagan theory that came out in 1983.

[FreeKeys]

Wasn't it in the '70s that the tree-huggers predicted there'd be no more oil by 2000? Or when was that?

[Dan Evans]

When temperatures were dropping in the 70's, they said we were headed for an ice age. The cause? Particulates from the burning of fossil fuels. The solution? A world-wide carbon tax.

Today they are smarter. The theory says warming will cause cooling. They have their bets covered both ways. This is called a tautology.

[presidio9]

GLOBAL COOLING

[Dan Evans]

The aggressive races/cultures/nations will position themselves to have control of the regions with the best climates

But hasn't the opposite happened. The most technologically advance cultures have moved to places that are so cold, the backward cultures can't thrive there.

[Dan Evans]

I read a Scientific American article that said the US would run out of coal in 100 years. The issue was dated about 1866.

[Mike Darancette]

Global Warming or Global Ice age. You can't have it both ways.

Actually you can. Depending on latitude everything between the tropics gets hotter cooling more quickly as you move toward the poles. Places like the Middle East and SW USA will become wetter while Equatorial Africa and South America can become vast deserts.

[Mad_as_heck]

There was an episode of the 1970s TV show "In Search Of" with Leonard Nimoy that was full of gloom and doom about global cooling and how all our cities were going to be under glaciers by 1990. Hilariously the SciFi or History Channel was still airing the reruns until recently. Maybe they still are.

[Harrius Magnus]

I wonder if Al Gore will issue a retraction on his predictions... Hah....
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Does anyone remember that awful and unusually cold Winter in NY when it was 7 degrees below, and there was ole Al Chore giving a speech on the impending global warming crisis? That captured Looney Left for me.

[Born to Conserve]

"But hasn't the opposite happened. The most technologically advance cultures have moved to places that are so cold, the backward cultures can't thrive there."

"Best" = food growing.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

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