Saving the World from being Frozen Wasteland
Yet another team of scientists using yet another climate model and yet another set of conclusions. This team has decided that mankind’s greenhouse gases have saved the planet from an ice age:
“Instead of driving us to the brink of environmental disaster, human intervention and technology progress will be seen as vital activities that have unintentionally delayed the onset of a catastrophic ice age.”
It was 20 bloody degrees when I went to work this morning. More of you people should buy an SUV!
According to Discover Magazine, Jan. 2005, discussing globel warming,
A sillier argument was also laid to rest: the one that says global warming might be a good thing because it would protect us from the next ice age. The advance and retreat of ice sheets is paced by cyclical changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit. More than 400,000 years and four glaciations ago, the orbit was about as round as it is now, and the planet was in an interglacial period much like today’s. Last summer a team of European researchers reported the first precise record of that distant time and of the past 740,000 years of climate history. They obtained it by drilling the oldest ice core ever, almost two miles into a godforsaken spot called Dome C—600 miles inland from the Antarctic coast and a little more than 1,000 miles from the South Pole. The result: If that earlier interglacial period is a guide to this one, we have another 15,000 years or so before the ice sheets should start to grow again. Accepting global warming now to forestall global cooling 15 millennia from now, says Eric Wolff of the British Antarctic Survey, with classic understatement, “is not a good bet.”
Globel warming could cause an ice age