Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age

[DanielParul 50]

The climate does change over time. Its a cycle - cold, warm, cold, warm again. Right now is what is abnormal, to have had warm climate on earth for so long.

[mawilson 2,133]

Day after tommorrow_ the movie was based on this principle... that global warming actually contributes to an Ice Age because the rising water and temps actual stop the thermal highwqys in the ocean... It takes more energy to raise the temprature of more water...

Hey, I watched that movie, The Day After Tomorrow, had a happy happy ending, that guys' son was safe.

[Yoink 7]

Day after tommorrow_ the movie was based on this principle... that global warming actually contributes to an Ice Age because the rising water and temps actual stop the thermal highwqys in the ocean... It takes more energy to raise the temprature of more water...

Hey, I watched that movie, The Day After Tomorrow, had a happy happy ending, that guys' son was safe.

And we were all illegally immigrating to Mexico

[Ban Hammer 14,577]

Day after tommorrow_ the movie was based on this principle... that global warming actually contributes to an Ice Age because the rising water and temps actual stop the thermal highwqys in the ocean... It takes more energy to raise the temprature of more water...

Hey, I watched that movie, The Day After Tomorrow, had a happy happy ending, that guys' son was safe.

And we were all illegally immigrating to Mexico

and there was no love for whitey at the rio grande....

[Scott & Lai 12]

Day after tommorrow_ the movie was based on this principle... that global warming actually contributes to an Ice Age because the rising water and temps actual stop the thermal highwqys in the ocean... It takes more energy to raise the temprature of more water...

Hey, I watched that movie, The Day After Tomorrow, had a happy happy ending, that guys' son was safe.

And we were all illegally immigrating to Mexico

and there was no love for whitey at the rio grande....

Oh noes! White people!!!

[Yoink 7]

Day after tommorrow_ the movie was based on this principle... that global warming actually contributes to an Ice Age because the rising water and temps actual stop the thermal highwqys in the ocean... It takes more energy to raise the temprature of more water...

Hey, I watched that movie, The Day After Tomorrow, had a happy happy ending, that guys' son was safe.

And we were all illegally immigrating to Mexico

and there was no love for whitey at the rio grande....

until we cleared all Latin America debt... I guess it wouldn't have mattered anyway as the US economy and society collapsed.

Everytime I think of an Ice Age I hear Ray Romano

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Global warming? Bah, humbug! I am getting frostbite on my nipples!

[Yoink 7]

hard nips eh... the average woman would need them for my other post "Heres 1 way to be famous"

[bhajishah 4]

Right now the ice caps are melting and iceland is exposing its land. Why you trying to confuse the kids. shames on yah

[Pooky 3,929]

Ice age coming.. ice age coming...

By the look on my dog's face after his early morning walk, it's flamin' well here already! Poor mutt couldn't wait to get back inside and defrost his paws.

[Ban Hammer 14,577]

Global warming? Bah, humbug! I am getting frostbite on my nipples!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Day after tommorrow_ the movie was based on this principle... that global warming actually contributes to an Ice Age because the rising water and temps actual stop the thermal highwqys in the ocean... It takes more energy to raise the temprature of more water...

Hey, I watched that movie, The Day After Tomorrow, had a happy happy ending, that guys' son was safe.

I think that movie was actually derided by scientists for being fuzzy on the science. I don't see anything by Roland Emmerich. Michael Bay is worse though, IMO.

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/12/31/Warm_Turns_4062.html

Here is an article that makes the case about sun spots having a lot to do with the warming and cooling of the earth. Please answer this for me . What caused glaciers to arrive and retreat many times . The latest being 11,000 years ago. Long before man had much impact on the earth. This climate change is far bigger than anything man has control over. From where I am right now there was once over 2 miles of ice . You people need to look at the money......Gore has a lot of money invested in the carbon tax hoax . Google it. He wants to make money off your back and laugh all the way to the bank.

http://www.priweb.org/ed/finger_lakes/nystate_geo3.html

Formation of the Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes consist of 11 long, narrow, roughly parallel lakes, oriented north-south as fingers of a pair of outstretched hands. The southern ends have high walls, cut by steep gorges. Two of the lakes (Seneca and Cayuga) are among the deepest in North America and have bottoms below sea level. These lakes all formed over the last two million years by glacial carving of old stream valleys. Ithaca is located at the south end of Cayuga Lake, the longest and the second deepest of the Finger Lakes. Cayuga is 38.1 miles long and 435 feet deep (53 feet below sea level) at its deepest spot. The actual depth of carved rock is well over twice as deep, but it has been filled with sediments; there may be as much as 1000 feet of glacial sediment in the deep rock trough below the lakebed.

The Finger Lakes originated as a series of northward-flowing rivers that existed in what is now central New York State. Around two million years ago the first of numerous continental glaciers moved southward from the Hudson Bay area, initiating the Pleistocene glaciation, commonly known as the "Ice age."

The Athabasca Glacier in Alberta, Canada, is an example of a present-day glacier.

The "Ice age" was really a series of many advances and retreats of glaciers. The Finger Lakes were probably carved by several of these episodes. Ice sheets more than two miles thick flowed southward, parallel but opposite to the flow of the rivers, gouging deep trenches into these river valleys. Traces of most of the earlier glacial events have vanished, but much evidence remains of the last one or two glaciers that covered New York.

The latest glacial episode was most extensive around 21,000 years ago, when glaciers covered almost the entire state. Around 19,000 years ago, the climate warmed, and the glacier began to retreat, disappearing entirely from New York for the last time around 11,000 years ago.

The most obvious evidence left by the glaciers are the gravel deposits at the south ends of the Finger Lakes called moraines and streamlined elongated hills of glacial sediment called drumlins. Moraines are visible south of Ithaca at North Spencer, along Route 13 west of Newfield, and near Willseyville. Drumlins are visible northeast of Ithaca at the northern end of Cayuga and Seneca lakes in a broad band from Rochester to Syracuse.

The yellow ovals highlight drumlins, the elongated hills of glacial sediment.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Climate change theory doesn't deny that outside factors (like solar radiation from sunspot activity) are the main factors at work. The argument I believe, is that human activities upset delicate balances.

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Climate change theory doesn't deny that outside factors (like solar radiation from sunspot activity) are the main factors at work. The argument I believe, is that human activities upset delicate balances.

"Delicate balance." Let's see. As the ice sheet retreats, it exposes settlements in Greenland that show man has survived, and prospered in a different enviroment. And the riches that are being exposed? Oil, and other minerals, to name a few. As the temperate zone moves farther north, more ariable land is being exposed as well, and that will increase food production. Before the Isthmus of Panama formed, there was no permanent ice cap. The world changes, and man adapts.

-- Bullwinkle

Edited January 12, 2009 by Rocky_nBullwinkle