2007-01-15 16:28:48 · 18 answers · asked by Gnome 6 in Environment
I know that it seems like the earth is warming, but could that be the prelude to the dreaded ice age?
2007-01-15 16:30:04 · update #1
It also brings to mind the fact that the ozone layer may not be having anymore effect on the earth now than it did centuries ago, since man wasn't polluting back then for sure!!
2007-01-15 16:42:22 · update #2
Yes. Assuming the planet survives that long.
2007-01-15 16:43:39 · answer #1 · answered by zek 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unffortunately, the global warming is the beginning of a possible ice age. The artic ocean was once the size it's becoming our days before a huge ice age happened.
The climatic changes provoked by the global warming can cause a severe ice storm.
This of course can happen thousands of years from now, but it could happen sooner.
Sorry, this is the truth...
2007-01-15 16:52:06 · answer #2 · answered by zaphiradragon77 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Every 11,500 years the earth goes into an ice age, or comes out of an ice age. This current period of warming has been 11,500 years already.
There are so many signs, warming of the oceans...Glaciers are growing....
check out: www.iceagenow
Robert Felix has done an amazing amount of research on this issue and continues to research and post global temperature changes and extreme weather patterns.
So My answer..any day now...it can start.
2007-01-15 19:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by duchesssammi 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you study the trend of climate over the thousands of years, you'd see that there was a pattern of ice ages & "warm ages". Right now, we're obviously in the warm age, seeing as how everyone's talking about "global warming"...but i predict we'll have another ice age, but a short one...one that'll last maybe a 100yrs, instead of one that lasts 1000+ yrs.
As they say..global warming is irreversable, so i predict the ice ages would get shorter and shorter.
2007-01-15 17:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by Shashi.S. 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yup! And will be going with it.
But technically we are still in an iceage because there are still ice caps and glaciers in the world. (Ecology I'm not making it up) But it will become more drastic when eventually green house gases in the atmosphere are depleted and can no longer trap heat inside of the atmosphere like they are doing a little to well now (hence global warming)
2007-01-15 16:37:18 · answer #5 · answered by gravytrain036 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes. If you look at history...there have been ice ages, global warming, periods in between, all in a cycle. The earth has cycles it goes in, there's actually scientific talk of the earths polarity changing. It won't be in our lifetimes (natural that is), but yes, it will happen
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2007-01-15 16:37:57 · answer #6 · answered by Jase 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think that Earth had enough time to turn into another ice age. I believe our sun will no longer exist by the time another ice age would be able to start.
2007-01-15 16:37:38 · answer #7 · answered by pretty shy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is extremely likely that we are between ice ages right now. The fact that Antarctica is frozen means that we are still in an ice age, albeit at the ebb of one. There have been periods in earth's history where there was *no* ice at the poles, and we are not there (yet).
2007-01-15 16:33:35 · answer #8 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I doubt it but you have a point. Like when your fridge heats up so it overcompensates by freezing everything. I don't think it will happen but if there is more water from global warming then there will be more of the earth frozen if it should happen.
2007-01-15 16:50:27 · answer #9 · answered by sticky 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As cold as it is at my house I think we're having an ice age.
2007-01-15 16:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋