Posted on 11/12/2008 10:37:18 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Earth may face freeze worse than Ice Age--study 12 Nov 2008 18:10:28 GMT Source: Reuters By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The planet could face a freeze worse than an Ice Age starting in as little as 10,000 years, giving future societies a headache the opposite of coping with global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.
The researchers, based in Britain and Canada, said that now-vilified greenhouse gases might help in future to avert a chill that could smother much of Canada and the United States, Europe and Russia in permanent ice.
They said the study, based on records of tiny marine fossils and the earth's shifting orbit, did not mean the world should stop fighting warming, stoked by human emissions of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels.
"We're saying: 'don't push the panic button'," said Thomas Crowley, an American scientist at Edinburgh University who shared authorship of the study in the journal Nature with a colleague at Toronto University.
"There's no excuse for saying 'we've got to keep pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere", he told Reuters by telephone, adding that the cooling was projected to start in 10,000 to 100,000 years.
"Geologically it's tomorrow," he said. "But we have a lot of time to argue about the appropriate level of greenhouse gases."
The projected build-up of vast ice sheets across the Northern Hemisphere and over seas around Antarctica would also lower sea levels by perhaps 300 metres (980 ft) -- connecting Russia to Alaska by land.
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"But we have a lot of time to argue about the appropriate level of greenhouse gases."
Follow the money...
We are so screwed.
I’m glad I have a lot of soup - and blankets.
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Quick! Implement Global Socialism to address this crisis!
Stifle capitalist energy usage and ban travel!
geez! I do wish these luniatics would make up their minds!
10,000 years, huh? So, I’ve got a little bit of time....
Algore lied, people freeze-dried.
If it’s 10,000 years out, I don’t think I’m going to spend much time worrying about it. Besides, the way things are going, I doubt that mankind is going to survive another 10,000 years.
Heh. I don’t, though.
My invention to automatically shut freezer and refrigerator doors is going to be a huge success.
Their study shows an incredible ice age coming, which they think can be averted by pumping out MORE greenhouse gas.
But they have to keep reciting again and again this is no excuse to have greenhouse gases now, because all of these kooks (environmentalists, reporters, democrats) have to push the same agenda no matter what facts emerge.
>”There’s no excuse for saying ‘we’ve got to keep pumping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere”, he told Reuters by telephone, adding that the cooling was projected to start in 10,000 to 100,000 years.
Read that as “Now, we’re not saying don’t hold your breath..”
We are so screwed. I’m glad I have a lot of soup - and blankets.
Numbers 11:15
Good one... !
Yes, but this would put AlGore and his scam artists out of business. Soooo unfair! /s
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