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The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

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The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacials occur within a regular cyclic pattern, the graph-line of which is similar to the rhythm of a heartbeat on an electrocardiogram tracing. The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years. What that indicates is that global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse. In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.

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The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their ‘fizz’, which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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ORIGINAL: JustDarkness

Lol..I personally like soemthing as opposite against the global warming theory.
Afther many years we have a winter again here with very low temperatures...lol..and now no one talks about global warming anymore.
I guess..when we get a warm summer again...global warming will be in the news again

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

Jeffery Glassman's thesis wrt the Vostok ice cores has been debunked.
http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/07/23/anti-global-heating-claims-a-reasonably-thorough-debunking/
http://www.logicalscience.com/climate_change/climate_change_intro.htm

But you'll believe whatever fits your ideology, won't you, Sanity?

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

Do the Chinese know they're ignoring their environment?

"China risks environmental disaster"
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-03/13/content_533957.htm
China's coal addiction...
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_Coal_Addiction_Causing_Environmental_Disaster_999.html

"Expanding deserts swallow almost a million acres of land every year, China's Environmental Protection Agency says. Soon, 40 percent of China could turn into scrubland, creating enormous social, economic and ecological challenges, including the problem of millions of "ecological refugees."
"Across China, more than 200 million people are suffering from the health and economic impacts of desertification. Breathing and skin disorders caused by the dust are on the rise, and falling crop yields are lowering incomes. Officials estimate that desertification is costing China $7.7 billion a year, and about 4,000 villages have been entirely swallowed by the encroaching desert and wordlessly stricken off maps. "
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/24/MNGBSL99KC1.DTL&hw=china+deserts&sn=001&sc=1000

"Not only is China one of the world’s twenty most water deficient countries, but irresponsible corporations and slack government has made water pollution highly prevalent in China. Today, as much as 70% of all rivers, lakes, and reservoirs in China are affected by water pollution, and with each passing day the situation only gets worse."
http://www.greenpeace.org/china/en/campaigns/toxics/water-pollution

Ownership of Pravda
http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol8/Korotich.html

Debunking you could be a full-time job.

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

Lulz.  Of course, if it's printed in PRAVDA, it has to be true!

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ORIGINAL: Amaros

I say be prepared for either, whichever way it goes, it's not like flipping a switch, adn between the two is climatic instability.

For the record, (striving) "to choke all of our remaining industry to death" generally tends to spur innovation that increases rather than decreases economic activity, and the whining about the status quo amounts to economic Malthusianism.

The Automobile industry thrived after CAFE standards were instituted, and the empirical historical data overwhelming indicates that adaptation and change results in economic growth, while authoritarian efforts to maintain status quo result in economic stagnation and eventual collapse.

We are, after all, ourselves the product of climatic instability.