I want to get a percentage on how many can think scientifically about this, so fire off your answers. I will comment on the results later in Nunitak's Weather Blog.
[I am excluding USA only because I pretty much know what people in general think here, including the 'climatologists.']
2007-01-21 06:56:21 · 5 answers · asked by Ursus Particularies 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Polar ice caps are melting due to climate change, and if you look in the past (the Canadian north has fossilized tropical plants before the last ice age for example) the weather generally getting warmer will eventually cause the next ice age. As to when? I'm pretty sure me and my kin and any offspring I may have will not be around to witness it.
2007-01-21 07:56:45 · answer #1 · answered by Maryka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Ice Age" as in the movie? Guess if the use of fossil fuel and the other various brutalisation that need to stop are not then there is a possibility of drastic climate change. We know for a fact the huge icebergs and shelves in both Ploar regions are already breaking off and melting and with sustained abuse of the ecosystem by countries with industries that further stretch the limits anything is possible. Unless higher powers (read God) steps in...
2007-01-21 15:12:44 · answer #2 · answered by t4capricorn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that in some places there will be an ice age and in in some places global warming will continue will be continents where every where is over 50 C and some places where it will be - 70C (not only Antarctica and north pole)
2007-01-21 16:07:48 · answer #3 · answered by hoshmoot_19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm u should still include usa bc thts mean
2007-01-21 15:27:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its going to flood the coastlines but i dont think itll cause anything to freeze
2007-01-21 15:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by wesnaw1 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋