There have been many ice ages in the past. What caused the warming that ended these ice ages?

Question

And please note: This happened long before human activity.

Answer 1

This is what I'm been hearing lately. Also, the ice shelves are melting in some areas but thickening in others. That doesn't sound good for the global warming supporters. For so long, you never heard the anti-global warming side of the arguement, until now or unless you were in the scientific community. The damned liberal media is so biased to there cause they wouldn't show us. Yet I still don't know which side to believe, both present good arguemnets, but I will say it's nice to hear both sides for once, instead of just the global warming sides views.

Answer 2

In October the foliage in New England is beautiful. Visit. Go to Northfield Mountain in northern Massachusetts. There is a nature center there. It tells us that 14000 years ago there was a huge glacier to the west. Over time it melted. A huge lake was formed. Then it broke through to Long Island Sound, creating the Connecticut River. Now we all know that this was caused by human activity. Who? A hint: A few miles to the south is the Mohawk Trail. It was caused by the Mohawk Indians smoking peacepipes. Now some infidels do not believe. They contend that most of the cause of global warming and cooling is caused by changes in strength of sunspots, duration of sunspots, and frequency of sunspots, plus wobbles in the axis of the Earth with more or less sunlight going either to the mostly land northern hemisphere or to the mostly ocean southern hemisphere. They call attention to cooling reported now in the southern polar region. Oh well, we can't call be true believing fidels.

Answer 3

everyone knows that the earths climate is cyclical.... all those that understand that man has had an impact on the climate also understand that. What we don't know is what man's affect will be on the warming cycle. Studies indicate it is having an affect. Is it speeding it up? Is it making it worse? What will the impact be? There is no doubt man has had an impact in that. There is enough information to show that. Why do you want to flatly discount it? Perhaps we can find ways that will counter the damage we have done. I am guessing you don't have any children and that is perhaps why you are not concerned.

Answer 4

Volcanic eruptions emitting CO2 into the air.

You should note those changes took very long.

The changes we are seeing now, are very fast in comparison.

Global Warming is natural, but it is being accelerated and exacerbated by emissions.

Answer 5

The sun's increased activity (burning hotter).