2006-09-16 15:40:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Oh the environmental wackos will explain it all. They have all the answers. But you'll have to wait until next summer. They only talk about global warming when it's in the upper 90's.
2006-09-16 15:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what I understand, it's because if the global climate warms up, the polar regions will melt, increasing the amount of freshwater into the oceans. In the North Atlantic ocean, this may cause the currents to stop - something to do with the salinity and/or temperature of the water. If these currents stop, warmer waters and weather will stop coming up from the south, causing another ice age.
2006-09-16 22:56:22 · answer #2 · answered by JBarleycorn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's kind of confusing but I guess that you can explain it like this.
They call it global warming because of the greenhouse gasses that are released cause the melting of the polar caps and rising water levels but it gets to a point where there is enough of them in the atmosphere to cause it to block the suns rays and that would have there reverse effect causing the risen water and global temperatures to fall resulting in an Ice age and it would take a long time to reverse these efects.
Oh who the hell knows for sure
2006-09-16 22:55:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that the glaciers have been melting for the last 100 years, we're definately not enterining a new ice age, but rather still retreating from the last one 10,000 years ago. However, the C02 in the atmosphere is speeding up the proces big time.
so- the basic premise of your question is incorrect. We're not heading into a second (or 20th) ice age, but rather a significant perioud of global warming.
2006-09-16 22:50:13 · answer #4 · answered by Morey000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Gerard Ruth at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, IN has a brother whom published an article about 4 years ago on this same subject. He proposes that the Earth is repeating a 26,000yr cycle in which the planet experiences warming due to increases in overall average temperatures, then followed by an extensive period of "glaciation" due to the climate changes that warming evokes. Not as traumatic and drastic as those described in the awesome movie "Day After Tomorrow", but similar events can (and proven to be true) take place! So, is it coincidence that humanity and its evergrowing ignorance of effects due to extensive abuse and pollution of the planet have exponentially enhanced the "greenhouse effect"? Or, are we in fact repeating the actual warming pattern prior to the glaciation that has occured in Earth's past. It is all part of the "evolution" of the planet as it cycles through change and follows the divine plan God has for her!
2006-09-16 22:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by Danny D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If something happens so that a lot of debris is in the atmosphere--like multiple massive volcanic explosions, etc.--the debris can block off the sun's heat long enough to severely alter the planet.
2006-09-16 22:48:44 · answer #6 · answered by willow oak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ice age won't happen again, but the flooding will and this time we don't have noah...
2006-09-16 22:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by DeAd DiScO 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋