2007-03-15 06:44:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The ice age cometh? Earth's climate can change at any time ... The last (ice age) ended 10,000 years ago; the next one— for there will be a next on—could start tens of thousands of years from now. Or tens of years. Or it may have already started.
2007-03-16 00:19:36 · answer #1 · answered by Curiosity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are still in an ice age, although an interglacial period within it. an ice age is when there is perminant ice at a pole, since we have perminant ice on both poles its an ice age. (why i question the whole global warming, we are coming out of an ice age possibly, thats why its getting warmer)
there will be more ice ages after this one finishes, its all part of the earths cycles small scale and large scale cycles getting warmer and cooler. around 0AD the temp was actaully warmer than today, dropped in the middle ages and is now warming again, but all of it was still in an ice age
2007-03-16 08:11:15 · answer #2 · answered by Kev P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes eventually, but we have to finish with the present one first.
When you strip away the BS, propaganda and politicking, the issue of global warming is very straightforward.
There are 2 competing hypotheses.
1. Changes in solar activity drive changes in climate
2. Changes in carbon dioxide drive changes in climate
The availabe data fits the first hypotheses very closely, while the fit for the second hypotheses is weak and uncertain, and can even be interpreted as changes in carbon dioxide levels follow changes temperature. So the only sane course is to go with the first hypotheses.
2007-03-16 09:56:14 · answer #3 · answered by mick t 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
There was just one ice age, and it needed very special conditions to create it.
You need warm oceans to create the water vapour and cold land mass to cause lots of precipitation as snow.
There is no known mechanism to cause this by uniformitarian processes. If the temperature just decreases now we won't get more snow falling on the ice sheets.
The ice age was an after effect of teh global flood when there were very warm oceans and cold land masses.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3011
2007-03-16 19:07:27 · answer #4 · answered by a Real Truthseeker 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yes. In the early Bible lore Hades was an icy doom. But, heh,
that's global warming for you. The infernal regions warmed up first.
2007-03-19 01:08:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was just reading the article below [sources]. it could be sooner than is presently thought.......
2007-03-18 15:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by keith d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eventually
2007-03-18 16:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by 22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋