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Cyclical Ice age gets hold of the earth – how severe will it be by 2012?
India Daily ^
| Dec. 29, 2005
Posted on 01/10/2006 10:42:52 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne
I will do my part by driving my SUV
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:20:46 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
("It's inexcusable to tell us to 'connect the dots' and not give us the tools to do so." G W Bush)
To: Lorianne
I will do my part by driving my SUV
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:20:47 PM PST
by
stocksthatgoup
("It's inexcusable to tell us to 'connect the dots' and not give us the tools to do so." G W Bush)
To: Lorianne
India still produces the most powerful ganga in the world. This article is a testimony to its strength.
To: blam
Sundaland
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Good idea! I'm looking for a real estate agent who will be able to sell under water "land". If I
find one, I'll refer them to you.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:23:35 PM PST
by
JeffersonRepublic.com
(There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
To: Lorianne
NY, NY under 400 ft of ice - translation: stay in India???
To: HOTTIEBOY
All evolution on this planet as it exists now cannot take place in 105,000 years.You make too many assumptions. An ice age doesn't kill everything. Lots of creatures survive just fine in the central tropical area of the earth. You also leave out the possiblity that everything on this earth evolved "de novo". Some may have been "planted" here. Human mitochondrial DNA appears to have a common ancestor that can not be much over 250,000 years old. The Toba volcano appears to have reduced the human population down to around 5,000 individuals. That was around 70,000 years ago.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:25:35 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: COBOL2Java
The funniest 10 minutes on film IMO. First time I saw Ice Age, I fell out of my chair during that first segment.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:26:05 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
To: HOTTIEBOY; jpsb
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:28:11 PM PST
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
To: Blzbba
More cow bell? Thanks for asking.
129
posted on
01/10/2006 12:32:19 PM PST
by
JeffersonRepublic.com
(There is no truth in the news, and no news in the truth.)
To: Termite_Commander
Troglodyte? did you just call me Troglodyte?
That's it, I'm going back to sleep!
Wake me up when the Apocalypse comes...
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:35:56 PM PST
by
silver charm
(Do not be deceived, God can not be mocked. A man shall reap what he sows. Gal. 6:7)
To: Centurion2000
Mass extinctions only occur every 33 million years. We're overdue for that as well.Great. Just when I thought it was safe to go outside.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:36:06 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
To: RightWhale
Is a feedback mechanism at work in earth's climate system that causes these cycles? Some like to point to possible variability of the sun [very common among stars] as the cause, others hypothesize some cloud of interstellar dust that the solar system passes through periodically. Yes there is a feedback loop. When snow and ice can accumulate, that'll reflect the Sun's energy back into space (albedo); a positive feedback towards lower temperatures. Vice versa, less snow & ice (more green vegetation) retains energy.
There's a known 26,000 year cycle of the precession of Earth's axis. Sediment cores indicate a 41,000 year cycle of unknown cause. One hypothesis (that I subscribe to) is the 100,000 year cycle is a beat harmonic of those two cycles.
CO2 is positively correlated with temperature. The argument is whether it's a leading (cause) or lagging (effect) indicator.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:38:52 PM PST
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: doc30
Ice ages. Just the other day there was an article on FR about OVER POPULATION.
ICE AGES are just Mother Nature's way of dealing with OVERPOPULATION.
To: who knows what evil?
Are we the only planet in this universe affected by warming cycles? I didn't think so.
Check Mars.
To: RightWhale
It is 20 below right now, in case you wondered where your weather has gone to. "Keep it"
</Chevy Chase>
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:41:07 PM PST
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: HOTTIEBOY
If the above statement is true, please explain to me why evidence of mass global extinction events does not exist for these periods and how species including plants and animals that are ten times older than that are still here. It happened so rapidly that those older plants and animals were cryogenicly preserved. They revivified when the Proto-SUVs came out of hibernation, and caused Global Melting.
If you need proof, it is indelibly inscribed on their genome, and that is the reason they tend to sleep, or if more deeply affected, estivate, or even hibernate, when it gets cold.
That is even the reason YOU sleep at night better than during the daylight hours: It is the coolest part of the day. It also explains why unairconditioned humans sleep poorly in the summer months--it is too warm to sleep.
As for "no global mass extinctions", you are forgetting the Great Drowning that wiped out 97% of all ice worms. If you don't believe me, just look at most any active glacier, and you will see the remains of their abandoned tunnels.
The melt water flooding out of those tunnels washed the worms into the rising oceans, where they drowned and disappeared without a trace, either eaten by fish; buried in pelagic mud, or simply rotted. Only their tunnels are left to tell the story.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:41:23 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
To: untrained skeptic
This is obviously a plan by GW Bush to expand the boarder of the United States into what are now international waters. "Damn that Karl Rove!"
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:44:08 PM PST
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: Lorianne
Its nice out.......
..............I think I'll leave it out. (boom ching)
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:45:52 PM PST
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
To: who knows what evil?
You should get a little something for being thrifty with the gas consumption. A little payoff for wearing a sweater and letting your toes and fingers and the tip of your nose get cold.
To: Myrddin
The author in this post states that the entire Earth was covered in thick ice 105,000 years ago. That simply is not true.
Whether your theory of hypergenerating mitochondrial genes is true or not, the theory that the Earth was completely covered in thick ice 105,000 years ago is just plain wrong.
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posted on
01/10/2006 12:52:52 PM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(I know HTML. Just too darn lazy to type it.)
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