Next Ice Age Delayed By Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels

Science Daily ^ | 8-30-2007 | University Of South Hampton

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Speaking as a Canadian, I’d say, yeah — ice ages are bad. Real estate values tend to drop, when the land is covered in a mile-thick ice sheet.

This isn’t the first I’ve read this theory (although the predicted delay is much longer). The GW alarmists won’t even consider the possibility tha GW could be good for us.

[BillM]

If more CO2 dissolves in the oceans, HCO3- and CO3— concentrations will increase.

This will result in more limestone, not less.

[3niner]

Future ice ages may be delayed by up to half a million years by our burning of fossil fuels.

Wonderful, if it were true, but it's utter nonsense.

[bigjackattack]

this is terrible, I had my 4 wheel drive priapus all gassed up for the next ice age

[stentorian conservative]

Damn.
Just damn.

[Redcloak]

Interesting... Except that CO2 isn’t much of a greenhouse gas when compared to water vapor.

[3niner]

Ice age is bad isn’t it?

Only if you don't like living with year round snow and ice. We keep hearing that it would be terrible if most of the world became a tropical paradise.

[Leo Carpathian]

Scientwists, can’t predict weather for tomorrow, but few million years ahead - no problem.
They keep forgetting that we are on mercy of Sun and its radiating energy and that human activity generated whateverrrr means as much as Algore peeing in the river trying to cause the flood.

[colorado tanker]

then it is likely that the next ice age will be skipped

I wonder if he thinks that would be a bad thing, considering that his house in Southampton would be under the ice or very near its edge.

(But, I don't for a second believe this.)

[secretagent]

The world's oceans are absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere but in doing so they are becoming more acidic. This in turn is dissolving the calcium carbonate in the shells produced by surface-dwelling marine organisms, adding even more carbon to the oceans.

Global warming, good up to a point.

Acidified oceans after a point mean the oceans' sea life disappears, except for slime. And then land life, including us, goes bye-bye:

"Increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere and global warming are threatening the oceans? phytoplankton that supports all marine life from zooplankton to whales. Phytoplankton is also the fastest assimilator of carbon, clearing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to prevent it building up as a greenhouse gas that warms the earth.

When phytoplankton is in jeopardy, all life is in jeopardy, on land and at sea..."

http://energybulletin.net/18533.html

Or so they say.

[Mikey_1962]

I am planning to be still dead about that time.

[JustDoItAlways]

The Trilobites and Ammonites (carbonate shell organisms) dominated the seas for millions of years at a time when CO2 levels were 10 to 20 times higher than today.

So the premise that increased CO2 leads to increased acidity which leads to the destruction of carbonate shell-based sea life is not supported by the facts of history.

Of course, with the right assumptions, a computer simulation can rewrite history. Simply do a search under “global warming” at Wikipedia for evidence of this.

[Robert A Cook PE]

“Acidification” is the latest buzz word for AGW crisis-expands-mode extremists.

Work the math: add “all” those tons of CO2 to the mass of the ocean’s water, and see just how (little) the pH actually changes.

By the way, we are OVERDUE for the next Ice Age (by several thousand years), and several predictions show the next few solar cycles may be enough to trip us into some really nasty times between now and 2020, so how can the next Ice Age be delayed “another” 100,000 years by a mere 3/4 of ONE degree increase - ASSUMING that the AGW extremists are actually correct?

[Salman]

Future ice ages may be delayed by up to half a million years ...

Hmm. Not that there's global warming, but that it's getting cooler more slowly.

And that we'll start to notice it in half a million years.

Aw heck. I think I'll panic. :)