[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]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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No shirt, shylock.

[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!

[HD1200]

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

[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.

[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?

[depressed in 06]

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?

No, polar bears foraging for food on Miami Beach is a good thing.

[dfwgator]

Here’s my point. Let’s just say for argument that indeed there is global warming, and for more grins, let’s say it is man made....so what?

Doesn’t that mean one of the benefits is more arable land so that we could grow more food. So why is Global Warming so bad anyway?

[Paul Pierett]

Morons.

[neverdem]

Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling

The temperature history of the first millennium C.E. is sparsely documented, especially in the Arctic. We present a synthesis of decadally resolved proxy temperature records from poleward of 60°N covering the past 2000 years, which indicates that a pervasive cooling in progress 2000 years ago continued through the Middle Ages and into the Little Ice Age. A 2000-year transient climate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long-term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insolation. The cooling trend was reversed during the 20th century, with four of the five warmest decades of our 2000-year-long reconstruction occurring between 1950 and 2000.

According to the study, after a slow cooling of less than half a degree Fahrenheit per millennium, driven by a cyclical change in the orientation of the North Pole and the Sun, the region warmed 2.2 degrees just since 1900, with the decade from 1998 to 2008 the warmest in 2,000 years.

That could well be true, but it may only be regionally true.

[browardchad]

Does this mean that “Igloo Construction Specialist” won’t be included on the list of Green Jobs?

[Fast Moving Angel]

I love the “DUH” headline!

[EGPWS]

The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere....

How's the ratings a doin' of late there with your promotional drivel NYT, eh?

Are ya' hopin' for a volcano to erupt to take the GW heat off of your lies and place them back in the hands of God?

[Nowhere Man]

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?

Good point. I live in the Pittsburgh area and if I ever get married and have kids, the glaciers are so close to me, I could take the family on a 15 minute drive to see them. B-) B-P. I looked and the ice line ended around Beaver PA, Ellwood City, and so on.