If global warming has stopped the next ice age, is that good?

Answer 1

I wouldn't say "global warming" stopped anything. The truth is that we were in a cooling period and now we're in a warming one.

The only thing "global warming" did was change the rhetoric of doom that the 'chicken little' scientists and activists spout.

In the late 70's they were screaming that we were going to go into an ice age if mankind didn't change their ways. Now we're all going to burn up or flood or some other such nonsense if we don't mend our ways.

Another truth they don't like is that our pollution levels have been decreasing constantly for the last 20 years. Now if pollution caused global cooling then we should now be polluting more to stop global warming, right?

Making sense of it is not possible. Lowering pollution is still good and so is conserving energy and recycling when it's feasible. So let's keep up the good work and ignore the nuts like Al Gore and his kind. They just want our attention as well as our money.

Watch - these same kooks will all go back to the ice age talk once the warming period ends and we start to cool off again in another 10 or 20 years. Mark my words.

Answer 2

Just a quick note - climate change and the ozone layer depletion are completely separate events. The "ozone hole" is due to aerosols and CFCs, which have been phased out in Canada since 1995, and only exist now in old appliances, etc produced before the Montreal Protocol was ratified.

Climate change is a result of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, etc) created with the burning of fossil fuels. And, no, it's not good. Even if climate change itself had no real effects (which it does), it would still never be good to live in a world surrounded by an atmostphere pumped full of pollutants. Forget all your scepticism about floods, droughts, increased disease, rising sea level, etc and just look at the basics. Pollution is not good for anything, and we just keep adding more.

Also, to the person who says pollution is decreasing - ummm....... Where did you get your stats? Sometimes really intelligent climatologists like those in Bush administration (sarcasm....) like to say that pollution INTENSITY has decreased, which means that as population and industry grow, the amount of pollution per person, or per unit of output may decrease, but TOTAL POLLUTION IS STILL INCREASING. Do you honestly think the atmosphere will look at all the excess greenhouse gases produced in our Western world and say to itself "well, pollution may be increasing, but at least they're making a lot of money".... no. The effects of climate change will still be felt even if intensity decreases. It's ridiculous what some people will believe.

Answer 3

international Warming is fake. international climate exchange, which isn't waiting to be altered by human beings, is what's happening. we are no longer at present on the threshold of and ice age, yet as a rely of actuality that they do take place sometimes. Oh, and think of roughly this. If the ice caps soften what's going to take place? you could desire to think of that the sea will overflow, nicely you're lifeless incorrect. think of roughly this. placed ice in a tumbler, then fill it to the brim with water. Wait approximately an hour and return and notice that the water did no longer overflow. you could think of, nicely yeah the ice displaced the water, yet interior the ice caps the ice is above the water. nicely, it form of feels God deliberate this entire ingredient out. What happens to water whilst it freezes? IT EXPANDS. whilst it melts, it contracts (shrinks). It shrinks on the suitable ratio because of the fact the ice it rather is above to what's under. 10:ninety. all the ice could desire to soften and not something could take place to the sea point. the only result could be much less sparkling eating water.

Answer 4

The short term ice age cycle which causes the advance and retreat of glaciers is one of approx 100,000 years. The last 'ice age' began to come to an end 18,000 years ago and all but finished 10,000 years ago - we've quite some time to wait before we're heading into the next glacial period, somehwere upward of 40,000 years.

By that time, who knows what will have happened as a consequence of global warming. We'll may well be in control of the climate and able to avert an ice age at the flick of a switch.

A full ice age cycle is a much longer affair, these cycles repeat at approx 125 million year intervals and we're nearly in the middle of one. Although it may seem strange, the Earth began heading into an ice age a little over 50 million years ago and in the larger scheme of things we're still heading into it. In the depth of a global ice age the planet is typically 10°C (18°F) colder than it is now.

As it stands now, the Earth is trying to support a huge population and a new ice age would be catastrophic. It would push the population into a smaller area and deprive us of much agricultural land and mineral resources, these things are scarce enough as it is.

(I think RvW Survivor (above) needs to do some homework or get her information from sources that aren't funded by big oil).

Answer 5

I really wish people would add the phrase "man caused" or anthropogenic because that is obviously what you mean. We are in about a 2 million year old ice age which probably came about due to the Indonesian Archepeligo, and continents closing in on the poles. Trevor and Tomcat were right that the last period of glaciation ended around 10,000 years ago and we have been generally warming since then (Interesting to me that they never acknowledge that, the alarmists I mean). There have been minor cooling and warming trends since then and we recently came out of a cool period in the 1960s and 70s. Those that fantasize that humans are responsible for all that is bad suggest that it was cool because of sulfur which humans emitted but thanks to them, we are no longer threatened by sulfur (in their fantasy). Perhaps increased CO2 will delay the onset of the next glacial period but as Trevor pointed out, it is thousands of years away.

Answer 6

WOW really, it has absolutley NOT stopped the next ice age, it has rapidly increased its occurance....it is going to happen sooner as a result of the warming.
as the polar ice caps melt, they decrease the solution of salt water in the oceans, and they cool down the jet streams, causeing a serious change in the flows ..... it changes the jet streams which makes the ice age kick in sooner....

Answer 7

Global warming did not stop the next ice age, we are still in an ice age. We are at or near the apex of an interglacial period, the glaciers have been retreating for 10,000 years, it is perfectly normal to be warm, global warming is what causes interglacial periods. It is very natural for glaciers to oscillate over hundreds of years as well as decades, nothing about climate appears to remain static. Nothing witnessed today is alarming or unprecedented, at least that's what the recent climate history indicates.



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Answer 8

Both warming and cooling are bad. Our crowded world needs stability and the costs of any changing are enormous.

Answer 9

The warmer temperatures alone will result in larger arid areas of land, which in turn will increase the need for cultivating areas. A vicious never ending circle.. An unpromising prospect for our children's borrowed land.

Answer 10

not necessarily.

the world does things for a reason. if there was going to be another ice age, then it'll be for a reason