Global Warming Could Forestall Ice Age

New York Times ^ | September 4, 2009 | Andrew C. Revkin

[reaganaut1]

Even if one believes in AGW, isn't averting another ice age that buries "much of the Northern Hemisphere under a mile or more of ice" a good thing?

[reaganaut1]

global warming ping

[xcamel]

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[Mojave]

http://www.amazon.com/Fallen-Angels-Larry-Niven/dp/0743471814

[sr4402]

but could also even fend off what had been presumed to be an inevitable descent into a new ice age over the next few dozen millenniums

I think the NYT notes the cooler environment and fewer Many Hurricanes. They may switch back to global cooling in a year or two.

[OldDeckHand]

"Even if one believes in AGW, isn't averting another ice age that buries "much of the Northern Hemisphere under a mile or more of ice" a good thing? "

Are you kidding me? What better way than to destroy America with a mile of ice over it's people, businesses and military. This is exactly what the environmental wackos dream about at night.

[brytlea]

Not if you hate human beings.

[colorado tanker]

Not necessarily. Long Island is a glacial moraine, meaning Manhattan would be under the ice. We wouldn’t have to put up with any more drivel from the New York Times!

[marlon]

How conveeeenient!

[brytlea]

Yeah, but then they’d all just move to TX and FL.

[HD1200]

I have been arguing this point with global warming alarmists for years.

[colorado tanker]

Ping.

This article claims 2000 years of sustained cooling in the Arctic until recently. My b.s. detector is going off - this sounds like the hockey stick redux.

[Gator113]

Gentlemen, start your engines.

[TheDon]

An ice age is what is to be feared. Billions would starve to death. Global warming is a great boon to life on Earth.

[Islander7]

The last ice age buried much of the Northern Hemisphere under a mile or more of ice.

I await breathlessly the glaciers leveling of Manhattan.

[colorado tanker]

I don't know about that. A bunch of disarmed Manhattanites trying to take land from a bunch of rednecks who like their guns and religion??? :-))

[Sherman Logan]

an inevitable descent into a new ice age over the next few dozen millenniums.

For millions of years, we've had Ice Ages alternating with interglacial periods.

The Ice Ages average, roughly speaking, 100k years in length.

The interglacials, again very roughly, average 10k to 15k in length.

We're about 12k into the present interglacial.

Yet these guys talk about the next ice age starting up in a few dozen millenia? Where do they get that?

[Pearls Before Swine]

What better way than to destroy America with a mile of ice over it's people, businesses and military. This is exactly what the environmental wackos dream about at night.

It would be kinda tough on Russia and China, too.

[OldDeckHand]

"It would be kinda tough on Russia and China, too.

Strangely enough, Russia and China - almost all of the Asian continent - were fairly untouched by the last glacial period. Europe, as a whole didn't fair to badly either, although what's now the Scandinavian countries and UK were complete covered in Ice, along with most of Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands and northern France.

In other words, all the "white" countries, for the most part got hammered in the last ice age, while the Asian, Pan Asian and Mongol areas remained largely unaffected - FWIW.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

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