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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.
Posted on 01/10/2006 10:42:52 AM PST by Lorianne
Ice ages come every 11,000 years. A mega ice age comes every 105,000 years. Both are due between now and 2012. The 11,000 year cycle happens because of increase and decrease of cyclical underwater volcanic eruption. The 105,000 mega ice age happens because of the changing shape of the orbit of the earth around the sun – circular to elliptical and then back to circular every 105,000 years.
Both the cycles are overdue. They have actually started. Europe right now is in deep freeze. Japan and South Korea are experiencing the worst snowfall ever. Even New Delhi is experiencing the worst ever fog and cold weather. Do not get surprised to see New Delhi experiencing the weather of Moscow, Miami experiencing the weather of Chicago.
Since the 105,000 cycle is overdue, the freeze can be real severe by 2012 and beyond. Some Geologists believe that global warming is causing the freeze because of manipulation of warm ocean currents and streams. The manipulation has occurred for many reasons. Global warming from human civilization is one reason. But much more serious is the cyclical increase in under ocean volcanoes and stretched geysers over miles. Such an eruption has recently been discovered in Indian Ocean stretching 45 miles releasing superheated steam to 750 degree F.
Because of this extra heat ocean is getting evaporated. The resulting precipitation is forming the snow and eventually ice. In the last ice age, Montreal in Canada was under two miles of ice. NY was less than 400 feet of ice. The southern US has no ice but had the weather of Canada with very often snow fall.
With our current technology, our civilization will survive the smaller cycle – the 11,000 year cycle that can produce a mini ice age. Food will be scarce and much of the northern hemisphere will be under deep ice with little life there. Serious migration of population will take place from north to south.
The terrestrial civilization cannot survive the mega ice age that comes every 105,000 years. In that case the ocean levels will fall by 500 feet on an average. The whole earth will be under deep ice. How do we know if the ice age that is engulfing the earth is smaller or the mega one?
Some geologists, astrophysicists and scientists believe if the mega ice age is starting then certain parts of the world will be very cold and under deep snow for a few years. At the same time many parts of the world will experience very mild winter. El Nino which is due in 2008-2009 can cause the mega ice age to come. A super volcano in Toba or Yellow Stone can also cause the mega ice age. Earth’s current orbit around the Sun suggests that any of these will instantaneously ( two months for example) put the earth into deep freeze. A burst of cosmic dusts from the center of the galaxy can also cause the same. Severe weather patterns that is taking hold of the earth are not very good signs.
I will do my part by driving my SUV
I will do my part by driving my SUV
India still produces the most powerful ganga in the world. This article is a testimony to its strength.
NY, NY under 400 ft of ice - translation: stay in India???
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.
Great. Just when I thought it was safe to go outside.
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.
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.
Are we the only planet in this universe affected by warming cycles? I didn't think so.
Check Mars.
"Keep it"
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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.
"Damn that Karl Rove!"
Its nice out.......
..............I think I'll leave it out. (boom ching)
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.
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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