[mywifecallsmerobi]

It's about time we get over our melting of the earth because of our SUVs

[weikel]

Let start burning coal now need to prevent the next ice age.

[umgud]

Is the stock market going to go up, or down?

Yes.

[weikel]

ping

[mcsparkie]

We need to burn up all the fossil fuels. This will release all that missing carbon into the biosphere, which will in turn support lots more plant life. Then the deserts can be reclaimed for productive use.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I remember how the environmentalists in the early 1970s were warning that pollution would cause another ice age. When the ice age failed to materialize, they started crying global warming. Looks like its time to go back to crying ice age.

[stylin19a]

Who is Will Hart ? Clicked on the Art Bell source link and it took me Will Hart. No sourced documentation there either.

[ancient_geezer]

Every 100,000 years, the global climate sharply transitions into a major ice age due to astronomical factors.

Guess what, that historical transition is due now.

[The Raven]

When do we run out of fossil fuels?

[Poohbah]

OK, who's been fiddling with the thermostat on the refrigerator?

[pariah]

All well and good, but don't you know the cause of this is -- Global Warming!. (Just ask Al Gore, he knows all 'bout it...)

[SamAdams76]

The Ice Age is coming and there is nothing we can do about it. Where I sit (in New England) was covered by hundreds of feet of thick ice some tens of thousands of years ago as it was many times before that. Once again, New England (and much of the rest of the USA) will be covered in ice and there is nothing we can do about it.

We will also all be dead before it happens because the Ice Age process takes hundreds of years. It is something for our descendents to worry about.

[CathyRyan]

If a new ice age is coming where the h*ll is it? January 31 my neighbor was mowing his yard and yesterday the temp was 67 degrees. And it is February in East TN for gosh sakes.

[mo]

the "greenhouse" effect was created and funded by those interests intending to and hoping to benefit from the Kyoto Treaty. Now no treaty ....now no greenhouse effects.....Always read the major media circumspectly-they almost always are being used.

[callisto]

Somewhere I have an scientific article concerning research of ice ages that indicates that the Earth can change from "normal" towards an ice age in as little as 10 years. I haven't found it yet,but I did run across this from last spring.

Global Warming Natural, May End Within 20 Years, Says Ohio State University Researcher

According to this model, when the Arctic Ocean is frozen over, as it is today, Essenhigh said, it prevents evaporation of water that would otherwise escape to the atmosphere and then return as snow. When there is less snow to replenish the Arctic ice cap, the cap may start to shrink. That could be the cause behind the retreat of the Arctic ice cap that scientists are documenting today, Essenhigh said.

As the ice cap melts, the earth warms, until the Arctic Ocean opens again. Once enough water is available by evaporation from the ocean into the atmosphere, snows can begin to replenish the ice cap. At that point, the Arctic ice begins to expand, the global temperature can then start to reverse, and the earth can start re-entry to a new ice age.

According to Essenhigh's estimations, Earth may reach a peak in the current temperature profile within the next 10 to 20 years, and then it could begin to cool into a new ice age.

The original news release may be found here

[Cleburne]

Another Ice Age down here will just mean hemlocks can grow in North Mississippi again- and we get a brand new coastline further south! The downside: just think of all the refugees from up North that'll be flocking this way when their cities start to crumbled under ice. And man, they'll probably be more ornery and nasty than ever...

[shortyxeric]

hey how can the earth not be melting if the sun is creating heat that melts almost everything and absorbs pretty much any liquid

[SauronOfMordor]

A while back Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle & Michael Flynn wrote a SF novel that postulated that we were overdue for an ice age and "global warming" was the only think holding it off. And when the eco-nuts cut down on greenhouse gasses

[Fruitbat]

It's about time we get over our melting of the earth because of our SUVs

At some point we may need to pass legislation to require folks to drive vehicles that get no better than 30 mpg so that we can begin warming the earth up again. I'd hate to freeze to death prolongedly. :D

Hummers 'round the house...!