or do we have some magical formula?
2007-03-16 08:41:39 · 21 answers · asked by dIsTuRbEd 1 in Environment
As an ice age is geologically determined by the presence of ice on the planet other than at the poles - we are actually still in one.
Add this to the fact that we are slowly emerging from it which is a natural cycle of evolution.
Really mucks up the 'global warming' theorists doesn't it.
2007-03-20 01:27:59 · answer #1 · answered by rookethorne 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are doomed a long, long time before the next ice age.
Ice ages are marked by cooler summers more than colder winters. The ice caps spread across the globe. People will have thousands of years to migrate and adapt. The population that can be supported by the earth in an ice age might be much smaller than the current population but again there would be a very long time to adapt.
I'd be more worried about my great grand children having to suffer the current neglect of the environment
2007-03-16 08:54:08 · answer #2 · answered by Ernie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the Upper Pleistocene, early Homo-Sapien came through the last ice age at the expense of Neanderthal man.
Modern Homo-sapiens have lost the Spirituality of human companionship. the Technology-Age has taken us so far away from the need of human bonding, that murder has become a symbol of today's morality. In other words the need to harm others, rather than protect, is becoming the norm. it will be easier to do away with those that cant keep up, than bother help sufferers to survive.
If an ice-age did descend on us in the Western hemisphere, Then many people would resort to violence because our easy way of mod-con life will no longer be available.
2007-03-16 09:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is likely that what we think of as civilization is doomed whether it does or not - in just a few thousand years we have transformed ourselves many times
but there will be a human civilization during and after the next ice age and the intermediary global warming period - what form it will take is the question
2007-03-16 08:46:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans were around for and survived the last ice age. A lot would not survive, but some would. Your best chance would probably be in an area closer to the equator.
2007-03-16 08:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by me_myself_&_eye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naw- think of what we'll save on air conditioning.
Bummer for the Canadians though.
Given the rate at which the glaciers are retreating- I'm not too worried about the next ice age.
2007-03-16 09:20:24 · answer #6 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that technology has advanced far enough that if the Ice age did come along, it would be for the better! All this global warming is stupid. You hear all sorts of reports for 'green cars', but what we really need is green planes! Air-planes contribute to over 80% of the green-house gasses.
2007-03-16 08:51:08 · answer #7 · answered by Kate, the one and only 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people have never been in an ice age..
we had the tail end of the last ice-age...but not the full blown ice-age..I would bet we would be fine after a while we would get use to it and move on...
2007-03-16 09:03:27 · answer #8 · answered by Larry M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Individually or collectively?
Some semblance of humanity will survive most anything that happens on a cyclical basis on the planet.
It may, however, be very ugly socially.
2007-03-16 11:25:54 · answer #9 · answered by ShogiO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-16 08:56:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋