unless it happens in the next 100 years i dont care. im gonna try to do my part in keeping the planet and air clean. but i cant do anything about the gas companies...one way or another the world will bounce back and we humans could help it bounce back by cutting down on pollution...or we can wait and try to live through the ice age*which i highly doubt will be possible*...
The Earth goes through cycles of warming and cooling. There will be another ice age. In the next 100 years? Highly unlikely.
Very untrue actually! Global Warming is the current epidemic to sweep the globe, yes? Of course! Anyway, the Earth has gone through stages of complete mass warming and cooling. This prodigious effort has much evidence for the innumerable times it has completed this cycle. And to add to this vindication, the "Global Warming" happens before Global Cooling. If this is true [which this theory isn't 100% proven] then there will be another Ice Age, but in 100 years? That is questionable, yes. And we aren't actually worried of the fact that the World is warming up, because the World will live on, we are just worried if the Human race will cease to exist.
of course not i mean with global warming there is obviously not going to be another ice age unless we recycle to much and save to much energy but thats probably not going to happen.
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As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Telltale signs are everywhere â"from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds â"the so-called circumpolar vortexâ"that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent stormsâ"the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.
awesome all the volcanoes erupting it will make acid in the sky and other smoke will make more slouds in the sky and the earth will be sealed with clouds and later on it will get colder and colder and it would be too later till the clouds disappear and the sun comes out and welll be dead
