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Explosion in Antarctic sea ice levels may cause another ice age
Fox News ^ | Oct.30, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia

Posted on 10/30/2019 3:15:38 PM PDT by Innovative

Upside-down "rivers" of warm ocean water may be one of the causes of Antarctica's ice shelves breaking up, leading to a rise in sea levels. But a new study suggests an increase in sea ice in a colder climate may lead to a much more devastating change in the Earth's climate — another ice age.

Using computer simulations, the research suggests that an increase in sea ice could significantly alter the circulation of the ocean, ultimately leading to a reverse greenhouse effect as carbon dioxide levels in the ocean increase and levels in the air decrease.

“One key question in the field is still what caused the Earth to periodically cycle in and out of ice ages,” University of Chicago professor and the study's co-author, Malte Jansen, said in a statement. “We are pretty confident that the carbon balance between the atmosphere and ocean must have changed, but we don’t quite know how or why."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; antarctic; antarctica; berniesanders; chickenlittle; climate; didyousearch; globalclimatechange; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscare; greennewdeal; iceage; oneweirdtrick; vermont
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To: fedupjohn
Leonard Nimoy

In Search Of...The Coming Ice Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ndHwW8psR8


21 posted on 10/30/2019 3:36:57 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: DesertRhino

Time for a bread and milk run? I don’t want to be last minute about it.


22 posted on 10/30/2019 3:38:27 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Innovative

“Explosion in Antarctic sea ice levels may cause another ice age”

Isn’t an increase in sea ice a symptom rather than a cause?


23 posted on 10/30/2019 3:39:42 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SkyDancer

And the glaciers will scrape NYC into the Atlantic Ocean.


24 posted on 10/30/2019 3:39:57 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: GnuThere

LOL


25 posted on 10/30/2019 3:39:58 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
"They are bringing back the 70s, is disco far behind? /s"

Please! No!!

26 posted on 10/30/2019 3:42:44 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Innovative

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3790115/posts


27 posted on 10/30/2019 3:44:19 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Innovative

Using computer simulations


Might give us some idea of possibilities, but generally worthless for predictions.


28 posted on 10/30/2019 3:44:30 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Innovative

“Computer simulations”

also known as apes throwing feces at the wall....


29 posted on 10/30/2019 3:44:57 PM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: DesertRhino

Piker!!!, I may have moved south, but I still have my equipment for sub zero weather including heavy insulated pants and mukluk boots


30 posted on 10/30/2019 3:46:48 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: Innovative

“One key question in the field is still what caused the Earth to periodically cycle in and out of ice ages,”
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It’s the Sun, stupid.

The source of all heat.

When it increases or decreases output, earth gets colder or warmer.


31 posted on 10/30/2019 3:47:57 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

“They are bringing back the 70s, is disco far behind? /s”

LOL! (Although I did like disco balls. Travolta... not so much.)

Was in grade school at the start of the 70’s and humans should have been annihilated at least 3 times by now.

I want them to explain why there are river beds in the Sahara, North pole rocks are at the equator, and the Mediterranean was been bone dry over 40 time.

But this isn’t about science, it’s about emotional manipulation for power.

We watched the same with the Kavanaugh hearing. It wasn’t about abortion. It was about stopping a Constitutionalist who is a threat to the power they crave.


32 posted on 10/30/2019 4:03:04 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: fwdude

“Whichever it is, it’s OUR fault, according to totalitarian leftists.”

And an enormous tax increase combined with profound limitations on your freedoms is the only solution.


33 posted on 10/30/2019 4:05:22 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Innovative

“One key question in the field is still what caused the Earth to periodically cycle in and out of ice ages,”

When they can answer that one, they can get back to us on global warming.

Besides, cold water holds far more CO2 than warm water. Every brewer knows that.

And 99.9999% of the earth’s heat comes from the sun.


34 posted on 10/30/2019 4:19:03 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Innovative

““We are pretty confident that the carbon balance between the atmosphere and ocean must have changed, but we don’t quite know how or why.”

EXACTLY. Please tell that to the climate change nuts out there. Nobody knows what’s happening now either, so stop imposing laws & rules & beliefs on everyone else


35 posted on 10/30/2019 4:34:21 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Seruzawa

Aren’t we still awaiting the ice age that was definitely going to happen by 1980? My first ever new “muscle” car only had about 140 hp because of it. (1973 Mustang Mach 1 351 Cleveland engine.)


36 posted on 10/30/2019 4:41:04 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Innovative

So the planet may be cooling? Liberal plans to dump fossil fuels are looking premature.


37 posted on 10/30/2019 4:50:45 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Innovative

Antarctica has been frozen for 15 million years. Surrounded by the world ocean, its an alpine desert.

Not to going to thaw in the next 11 years.


38 posted on 10/30/2019 4:58:29 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Innovative
Hmmmmmm, cart/horse. . . Cause/effect seems to be somewhat confused here. How, exactly, is the increase in Antarctic ice CAUSING a new ice age? Isn’t that exactly backwards??? Or is this the level of logical thinking we have to put up with in this day and age of not-so-science?

This is another question similar to the chicken/egg controversy.

39 posted on 10/30/2019 5:20:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
I wish they would make up their minds.

Oh, they’ve got their minds made up. . . What ever they make up, requires more government, less freedom, and much higher taxes. Got it? That’s how it works. No matter what ad hoc fantasy they are pushing at the moment, the answer is more government, less freedom, and much higher taxes for them to throw at the fantasy and to control what you and everyone else is doing. It’s a positive feed-back loop. . .

40 posted on 10/30/2019 5:23:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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