Snow and Ice?

Question

I was wondering if most of you global warming advocates know that snow and ice are not regular features of the Earth, but rather have only been around since the beggining of the last Ice Age. What we're seeing now is the slow shift to when the Earth is in its "normal" state, when there is no glacial cover.

I'm just wondering whether people knew that O_o. I see nothing wrong with the climate change, why try to control something humans cannot?

Exactly, the Earth is IN BETWEEN an icehouse and greenhouse phase as you put it.

There is NO WAY to control it. Sorry, but we didn't know coastal regions would be underwater when we built there! Point is, they're going underwater, and theres no way in Hell we're going to stop it.

I live in Florida, it probably won't happen in my lifetime but some of my grankids might have to move north. Just a fact of life.

It seems to me that the Al Gore followers are delusional. Don't kill yourself over the horse you can't break.

Answer 1

Actually
Snow and Ice have been here before as the earth has been in what i believe you wanted to call an icehouse phase. The earth has moved from icehouse to greenhouse phases before. We are technically not really in either. A true icehouse phase has two and masses covering the poles. We have only one. Plus the tilt and wobble of the earth also have effects on global climate. So saying the earth going to its normal state is wrong. Normal would be a wrong saying. Either cold or hot is normal. The transition between both is not. But then again saying the earth is normal is kind of odd because its is the basis of life. You cannot put off saying humans do not have an effect on the earths climate. Granted most research goes back only in the hundreds of thousands of years and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. I would assume that pumping a lot of crap into the air is not good for humans. Earth will probably be ok, but we might suffer a bit.

Answer 2

Obviously you are not familiar with the theory of Snowball Earth. To say that ice and snow are not regular features of the Earth is absurd since we have had several cooling and warming periods over the Earth's history. What is "normal" for the Earth since it goes in cycles?

The question today is "are man made activities causing a more abrupt change in climate warming and what will the climate change mean for human civilization and plant and animal life"? The second question is "what can humans do to slow or stop the abrupt rise in global average temperature"?

Even if we are shifting to what you consider Earth's "normal" state that still might have devastating consequences for our civilization. Flooding of coastal regions will drive huge populations of people further inland which will put pressure on already stressed areas. Water shortages and encroaching deserts will also lead to population shifts and wars over land and resources. Massive political instability is a real possibility if the average temperature of the Earth rises by just 2 or 3 more degrees. Even if you think it is part of the natural cycle don't you think we should consider ways to deal with it? To slow it or control it?

Answer 3

The problem IS, there is increasing evidence that we ARE "controlling climate change"- by making it WORSE by all the gunk we're putting into the air. And by us creating more & MORE people every day- we're "reving up the Engine" that will cause more & MORE damage to us & our children in the not-so-long-run. I kinda look at it like THIS; we have our foot (our everyday lives) on the "gas" (carbon dioxide) and it's making our "car" (our Environment) go faster & FASTER... -At WHAT point do we take our lead-foot off the gas?- Before the car spins out of our "control"- or after millions of us have been killed in the "crash"? (And if you don't think it can happen- then I bet you've had your share of speeding tickets to prove my point). :)

Answer 4

actually we spend more time in an ice age then out of them.

Answer 5

*dryly* give a hoot don't pollute