What happened to the ice ages?

Question

How can global warming alarmists explain away the disappearance of previous ice ages?

Answer 1

the previous ice ages werent melted by global warming, they followed a natural trend in the earth's tilt called the Milankovich cycle. The reason for concern now is that the cycle is in a phase where we are suppose to have an ice age, yet it is hot. Now if its hot when the world is suppose to be freezing, what happens when the cycle rolls back to where its suppose to be hot?

Answer 2

We are currently in an "interglacial" phase. This is a warmer period, in a long line of ice ages. What is happening now is much different from the previous interglacial phases since the man-made pollution since the industrial revolution has drastically sped up and surpassed the normal warming. We don't know where it will end since this has never happened. There are no longer just global warming alarmists, but all intelligent people warming that serious changes are happening. You may laugh, but you will see soon enough. All over the world climate changes are causing problems. Get ready for more Katrinas, deadly droughts (Australia is already on year 7), loss of forests (the southeast US states are losing theirs) dissapearence of coral reefs (many are right now, and most will be gone in the next few decades), extinction of countless species (yes that has always happened, but it is horrifying to learn how many species we have managed to kill above the baseline), loss of polar and glacier ice such as the melting of the Himalayas which supply the water to India and China etc.

The list goes on and on and on. These are all real issues that are happening now, not hypotheticals. So don't dismiss us as alarmists when your home is flooded, the price of food and gas goes up, or your local economy is distroyed, we warned you.

Answer 3

Well there seem to be several problems with such a concept even if you ignore basing it on a computer game. Chief among them, is the problem of cool glacial water is going to be minimal, glaciers already discharge large volumes of cool water into the ocean system, it is in fact the main driver of the large ocean current systems, the temperature difference between surface water temp and deep water temp creates these very cycles. If you look at the estimates for sea level rise it is 1m up to possible 2m at the higher end of the IPCC estimates added to oceans that are ~3.6km deep on average. Scale that down to a more human dimension if you had a pool 3.6m deep and you added 2mm cooler water to it how much do you thing that would change the temperature of the pool. "Would there be wars over the last remaining dry land? " Umm, in an actual ice age scenario, sea level drops, there would actually be more land, during the last ice age sea level was 120m lower than it is today, I live on the Island of Tasmania, 200km south of the Australian mainland, during the last ice age it was part of Australia and Aboriginals walked here, they were later cutoff as the interglacial occurred and sea levels rose, they developed some marked cultural difference to mainland tribes. "Do we currently have the technology to reverse the catastrophe?" Given that we should be headed toward the next glacial (till we started messing with Co2 levels) The answer is yes

Answer 4

The planet goes through natural cycles. Very slowly it warms up and all the ice melts then very slowly it cools down and the ice caps reform.

A typical ice age cycle lasts upwards of 100 million years so the changes that bring about an ice age or the end to one are extremely slow - the average temperature trend is a change of 1 degree every 2.5 million years.

Natural cycles in the way the Earth moves (Milankovitch Cycles) and heat from the Sun (Solar Variation) cause these long term changes.

They have almost no bearing on the current warming trend which is many times faster than anything that could possibly happen naturally.

Answer 5

Didn't you watch the movie?? Scrat pulled the acorn out of the ice and the water inside came pouring out...Cute movie, you should check it out!

LOL, just kidding, I couldn't tell you what happened to the ice ages...i guess life just kept evolving and all that good scientific stuff...amazing how there was no air pollution, no over populating humans and all the other crap they say is causing "global warming" these days, but some how the earth still warmed enough to melt all that ice...hmmmm...

Answer 6

They can't. Not definitively.

They will try to tell us that this is happening faster than it has ever happened before. Were they around during the middle ages when it was warmer than it is today? No.

They will try to tell us that is caused by the industrial revolution. What about the COOLING that occurred between the late1930's to the 1970's when there was MORE pollution than there is today? I don't know, and neither do they.

They will try to scare you into expensive protocols that will do nothing. They will try to tell you that driving your SUV is killing the planet. They will tell you this while doing NOTHING to help the alleged situation themselves.

Al Gore uses 20 times the energy of the average US household. Hollywood uses far more energy in producing a film. Richard Branson owns a freaking AIRLINE for crying out loud!

All they want is your money.

Answer 7

We are overdue for an ice age, but the time frames are enormous. What's 20,000 years, give or take ?

Answer 8

the ice age was destroyed because of cave"MAN" driving his SUV all over the world with out any regard for mother earth who nurtures us all. cave"MAN" is responsible for the mammoth extinction too. do you see any mammoths around? that proves man is at fault.

Answer 9

Since they were so wrong back in the '70s, they thought they might try reverse 'sycologee' in a new attempt at recognition. How pathetic!
It is appalling how many people have been duped into believing this trash about it being man made, though.

Answer 10

its the sun, its the sun. the earth flew too close to the sun and it melted all the ice