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pahunkboy -> Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:30:46 PM)
See - we have global warming. ------------ Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth – far from facing a global warming problem – is actually headed into a mini Ice Age.

Hillwilliam -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:37:31 PM)
NASA defines the term as a cold period between 1550 AD and 1850 AD (from Wiki) Pretty cool huh? The mini Ice age started 100 years before the sunspot minimum that 'caused' it.

TheHeretic -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:40:20 PM)
Here's a link that isn't quite so breathless.

BamaD -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:43:43 PM)
Hillwilliam does this make you a global denier ?

Hillwilliam -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:48:00 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BamaD Hillwilliam does this make you a global denier ? Nope, Just makes Me an educated person with a hardcore background in chemistry and marine science (the oceans drive weather patterns) who wants more data before I make up My mind instead of believing the first breathless national enquirer story I see. Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst. Some folks would rather hope for the best and deny the worst could ever happen.

BamaD -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:48:43 PM)
Of course I meant to type global cooling denier

Musicmystery -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:51:24 PM)
Prison Planet viewers brains may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade! What may be the science story of the century as atrophy causes a decline in brain temperatures.

BamaD -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:53:20 PM)
hillwilliam you do know that was a joke

Hillwilliam -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 7:58:06 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BamaD Of course I meant to type global cooling denier I thought that is what you meant. Wasn't sure though so I kinda popped in an all-purpose answer. I mean look at it objectively. The Maunder minimum occurred well after the beginning of the "little ice age". Therefore, it could NOT have caused it. Low sunspot activity is associated with slightly lower solar output and possibly lower temperatures but higher sunspot activity is associated with more cosmic rays that can cause increased cloud cover which will increase the planet's albedo (reflectivity) and (you guessed it) lower temperatures. As I said, WAY too little data to jump on any bandwagon.

Hillwilliam -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 8:01:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BamaD hillwilliam you do know that was a joke Actually, it wasn't all that bad a question. Climatology is REALLY fucking complex. We are just now designing computers with enough number crunching power to come close to good predictions. Nobody can predict next year or next decade or the next hundred years. We just have to look at the last century or ten or hundred centuries and try to spot trends

BamaD -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 8:36:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam quote: ORIGINAL: BamaD hillwilliam you do know that was a joke Someone discussing climate change rationally I am not used to that Actually, it wasn't all that bad a question. Climatology is REALLY fucking complex. We are just now designing computers with enough number crunching power to come close to good predictions. Nobody can predict next year or next decade or the next hundred years. We just have to look at the last century or ten or hundred centuries and try to spot trends

BamaD -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 8:38:16 PM)
It did not post my comment. I was mentioning that it is rare to see someone discuss climate change rationally

Hillwilliam -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 8:44:33 PM)
You're correct. Most folks rant and scream to hide their ignorance. My personal opinion is that we need to wean away from oil NOT because I'm afraid of warming but because a crash program (similar to the space program of the 60s) in alternate energy would do 2 things. 1. It would reestablish the US as the preeminent technological power on the planet and 2. I could turn on My solar powered TV and watch arabs that USED to be rich as Croesus eating dirt, rocks, sand and camel shit while they beg for scraps from all the people they've fucked over the past 60 years.

BamaD -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 9:02:36 PM)
Great dream Drill here as a stop gap and hurt them right away. And get to some other energy source quickly

pahunkboy -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 9:13:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Musicmystery Prison Planet viewers brains may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade! What may be the science story of the century as atrophy causes a decline in brain temperatures. Just think...all those carbon taxes you paid- and you did pay them stealth via utility surcharges- and costs, were for nothing.

Hillwilliam -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 9:30:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BamaD Great dream Drill here as a stop gap and hurt them right away. And get to some other energy source quickly There ya go. We also need to save a lot of what we have too. It's a vast but finite resource and there are a lot of things that civilization depends on (lubricants, fertilizers, plastics and resins, medicine, textiles, non plastic polymers etc) and what we have has to last for as long as we want a civilization. I'd rather that be millenia and not centuries.

jlf1961 -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 9:41:19 PM)
Look, I have a solution for the global warming (and increasing the value of my stock portfolio that includes winter sports stocks) all I need is ALL the nuclear weapons presently in the US arsenal, access to Yellowstone, and a detonation device. I figure that I bury all the nukes about five hundred meters down, detonate them and set off the volcano. This should create a new ice age, and global climate change is averted.

Kirata -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 10:11:58 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jlf1961 I figure that I bury all the nukes about five hundred meters down, detonate them and set off the volcano. This should create a new ice age, and global climate change is averted. Well you might not need to go to all that trouble.... Are We on the Brink of a New Little Ice Age? Researchers always tell you that more research funding is needed, and we are not any different. Our main message is not just that, however. It is that global climate is moving in a direction that makes abrupt climate change more probable, that these dynamics lie beyond the capability of many of the models used in IPCC reports, and the consequences of ignoring this may be large. For those of us living around the edge of the N. Atlantic Ocean, we may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur. K.

jlf1961 -> RE: Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade What may be the science story of the cent (6/15/2011 11:19:28 PM)
But K, my way I insure that there are winter sports resorts in Yuma Arizona! Of course, the ice sheets moving down from the north pole may be a problem in the Northern States, and the frozen tundra in the plains, but the southern states should have good growing seasons. And the ice age would deal with those people who dont know how to drive on snow or ice covered roads, thus cutting down on over population. The only thing I have not figured out is how to deal with all that hot air generated by politicians of both parties.

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