Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/09/2012 1:55:05 PM PST by jda
High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday.
Concentrations of the main gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in 2010 and will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today, according to the U.N.'s weather agency.
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There have been at least five ice ages on earth. During ice ages there are cycles of glaciation with ice sheets both advancing and retreating.
Officially, the earth has been in an interglacial, or warmer period, for the last 10,000 to 15,000 years, and estimates vary on how long such periods last.
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The causes of ice ages are not fully understood but concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, changes in the earth's orbit around the sun, and the movement of tectonic plates are all thought to contribute.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
It'll be here before you know it.
My thoughts exactly. If our emissions can make the next glacial period even a little less cold, a little less deadly, then our evil ways will have been worth it.
Don’t worry.....ice ages start when it snos so much that it all doesn’t melt the following year. Then it just keeps getting deeper year after year.
Look at the snows in Alaska this year. Record breakers.
Yeah, I’m adding insulation in my attic as well, but not because of cold temps. It was 105 degrees here for weeks on end last summer. Got to get those bills down somehow. But it will help in the winter as well.
Wait til the scammers see the hidden gold mine : something happened 1500 years ago that is causing our current global warming, Now they have decades of grants to get to figure out what it was. We can figure out the significance of the findings later.
Exactly.
Although I think this is bunk, how exactly is delaying an ice age 1500 years a bad thing?
Does the author have something against Canada, the upper USA, and Northern Eurasia?
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