[manwiththehands]

I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either. It's all a bunch of hooey. They're just covering all the bases so no matter what happens they can come back and say: "See? We were right!"

[burzum]

No, I was specifically commenting on the fact that the writer thought that 2150 F is ten times the boiling point.

Of what? Water at atmospheric pressure?

That temperature is 373 K. 2150 F is 1450 K, certainly not ten times the value. In any other case (such as the boiling point of water under high pressure--such as the bottom of the ocean), the ratio is even lower.

A person who writes about science should know better. A first year physics student would know better. It is obvious that the author forgot about the thermodynamic temperature scale.

[SamAdams76]

The theory behind the "warming oceans equals ice age" is this:

The warmer oceans cause more storms to form, thus dumping more snow than usual in the polar regions. All this snow takes longer and longer to melt until eventually it starts sticking year round and the ice caps start to grow.

That's the theory anyhow. Could very well be a bunch of bunk but just wanted to put that out there.

[Dustbunny]

I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either. It's all a bunch of hooey. They're just covering all the bases so no matter what happens they can come back and say: "See? We were right!"

LOL.... ditto that.

[Loud Mime]

I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either.

What's wrong with you? Haven't you noticed the ice on the walls of the sauna? or around the edges of your hot tub? Good Grief!

;^)

[kabar]

If you go to the site,Not by Fire but by Ice, you will see that Felix is trying to debunk the global warming crowd. According to Felix, we are about to enter a new ice age, which is a cyclical event that occurs every 11,500 years. It has nothing to do with man.

The warming of the ocean by volcanic activity releases more CO2 into the atmosphere. It has nothing to do with human activity. It is not global warming, but ocean warming.

[metmom]

And people wonder why the general public doesn't trust scientists. There's nothing the scientists said but the science writer makes these statements and people often just assume the scientists support it.

Do they know if this is all NEW volcanic activity or old volcanic activity that we have just learned about?

[philetus]

I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either."

You know. Kind of like how Coleman refrigerators use fire to make ice.