True or False
2007-03-08 09:34:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
True. That's one of th HUGE indicators of global warming- the ice ages go in cycles and were were supposed to be going into one right about now. However, we are instead heating up.
Global Warming sent us into a period with abnormal heat instead of the natural ice age. At this point, don't expect snow.
edit: Dana, they are. we have data going back over 300 million years, and they are in an almost perfect cycle.
2007-03-08 09:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe this to be false. Geology does not have a good reason why Pleistocene glaciation occurred, so they cannot predict the onset of another cycle. Also, the glacial interstage periods were much longer than 11,000 years, which is when the final stage of glaciation occurred.
2007-03-08 09:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True, but our understanding of global weather patterns is in it's infancy. We could be due for a massive global warming or an ice age. Who knows??
2007-03-08 09:37:34 · answer #3 · answered by summit_of_human_intellect 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
False. See this article by climatologists:
"The Global Cooling Myth"
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94
2007-03-08 10:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For those who fail to comprehend that "Global Warming" is a poor description, what we are probably going through is a disruption of "natural" climate swings. An ice-age is probably (strike that, definitely) going to happen sooner or later. But first we are likely to experience a series of unusually hot summers and unusually cold winters...
2007-03-08 09:57:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well you see, an ice age occurs every 200 years and the last ice age ended in 1937 at 2:30 pm. since it is currently 2007 we still have plenty of time before we are all frozen for about 25 years and thawed out to continue with our daily lives.
2007-03-08 09:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
True. Ice ages aren't cyclical, so there is no way to tell for sure.
2007-03-08 09:43:06 · answer #7 · answered by Dana Mulder 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
an ice age and global warming....hmmmm.
2007-03-08 09:36:52 · answer #8 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure bring it on the human race has survived worse and it will survive this.
2007-03-08 09:42:44 · answer #9 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you you ever watch the news?
Wonder what global warming is about?
hmm
2007-03-08 09:38:05 · answer #10 · answered by ryanlas 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋