The causes of ice ages have become better understood than most people realize.
Yes certainly, but when I don't know.
No this early snow in some places is just weather, other places like Queensland Australia are having heat waves.
Would humans survive another ice age YES, we survived the last one, but it would be a disaster 7 billion people would not cope, and the human race would be reduced in numbers unless improved technology could come to our aid.
Not for many thousands of years, especially if the next ice age comes in the same manner as the last ice age. 10C of cooling over 100,000 years is 0.01C per century of cooling.
Don't worry about the next ice age, unless you plan to live for 50-100,000 years. Global warming is the problem.
If people know what is going on, or even if by chance they migrate to the right places, yes. If the Neanderthals had moved into Asia instead or either remaining in Europe or trying to move into Africa, they would still be around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitc...
No.
However, you should keep in mind how the cold air started.
It was a November cyclone that came up the coast of Asia, past Japan, across the Pacific to Alaska and Canada, then down into the USA.
A hurricane in November.
Hurricanes are warm water, and warm air weather systems.
If anything, the cold weather we're having is more an indication of warming than cooling.
Read the link. It tells you how ice ages come about.
Edit: Alph says, "need link....."
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Edit more:
A week ago, I asked, "Who thinks that, next week, when there's a cold wave, global warming deniers will be out in force?"
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http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurr... (skip the video)
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I don't think so. Earth is sinking in lower atmospheric level in which the temperature is higher. So Earth will get hotter but earth cycle will move to the original position but not into ice age.
Climatologist John L. Casey says we are already in a 30-year period of cold because of significantly reduced solar activity. It has been cooling since 2007.
not likely for thousands of years. Humans would survive, but not the 7 billions we have today.
Yea there'll probably be one, probably not in our lifetimes though. I definitely think the human race would survive, though I think a lot would die too, we wouldn't have an over population problem anymore.
We are in a steady warming cycle which is the best possible news for humans.
Yes, in a few thousand years. No ,it is local weather. Some will.
Do you think there will be another ice age?
With the climate change and the early snow in some places,some people think there will be another ice age,what do you think?
and do you think humans would survive another ice age?
sure..in thousands of years. the atmospheric co2 will decrease by geologic processes taking thousands of years.
look up milankovich cycles
Yes for sure, this interglacial has been around for over 10,000 years. Interglacials last, on average 10,000 years and when they end, they end. Regardless of how much CO2 is in the atmosphere.
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The last main Ice Age was due to conditions after the global Flood around 2400 BC when oceans were warmer and land surfaces were cooler which led to huge amounts of precipitation in rain and snow falling in a short time. Some ancient sea maps like the Piri Re'is show Antartica when it was free of snow and ice within human history.The Earth's axis tilt also changed abruptly by a couple degrees around 2345 BC until returning to normal around 1850 AD as calculated by the Australian astronomer George Dodwell based on ancient gnomon markers and astronomically aligned temple sites like Stonehenge. Karnak Temple in Egypt and Tiahuanaco, etc.. A couple degrees of axis tilt change would have great effects on global weather/climate. Milankovitch cycles often used to calculate obliquity/axis tilt and other changes over long periods of time are in error and are based on extrapolations of modern data beyond known data points rather than factual records of ancient observations/sites such as those that Dodwell and earlier astronomers noted. Smaller, mini- Ice Ages like the Maunder Minimum or Dalton Minimum, etc.. occurred during periods when solar output or activity was much lower and possibly dovetailed with periods of higher volcanic activity.
According to some studies, the Sun may once again be entering a prolonged period of lower output which could indeed lead to another mini Ice Age in some areas. Humans survived in various areas or migrated away during the last colder periods so it's likely they will again but some areas may lose populations or need to find ways to deal with colder, snowier conditions....using vertical farming or other methods to grow crops indoors year round, more effective use of solar heating or insulating homes/businesses, etc.. Or we may have to find ways to geo-engineer conditions on Earth to account for variations in solar output...add more CO2 or methane to the atmosphere when needed and draw it out or reduce levels when not, etc...
Dodwell's work....
Excerpt...
"The presence of this harmonic sine curve, with its diminishing amplitude, is a marvelous confirmation of the important, and now verified, fact that the earth has gradually been making a partial recovery, during the interval of 4194 years from 2345 B.C., to 1850 A.D., after a sudden large disturbance of its axis in 2345 B.C., and that it reached its present state of completed equilibrium in 1850 A.D."
http://www.setterfield.org/Dodwell_manus...
Dodwell wrongly deduced that the cause of the tilt change was due to an asteroid impact to the Earth whereas no impact crater has ever been found and the pressure pulse from such an event would have wiped out vast areas of life forms. The only event of that period which could have caused such a shift in axis tilt and a roll of the Earth based on other observations is the global Flood as noted in the Bible and referred to in many other cultural legends and verified by many evidences in the geological record....billions of fossils of preserved life forms of which some still have preserved soft tissues, DNA and C14 found in them which could not have survived intact for millions of years as science suggests or asserts.
Related articles to Dodwell's work....
http://mathisencorollary.blogspot.com/20...
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thre...
"Changing Axis Tilt. George F. Dodwell served as the Government Astronomer for South Australia from 1909 to 1952. In the mid-1930s, he became interested in past changes in the tilt of the earth’s axis. He collected almost 100 astronomical measurements made over a 4,000-year period. Those measurements show that the tilt of the earth’s axis smoothly decayed from 25°10' to its present value of 23°27'. Based on the shape of the decay curve, Dodwell estimated that this axis shift began recently.34
The gravitational forces of the Sun, Moon, and planets do change the tilt of the earth’s axis, but much more slowly than the changes Dodwell measured. An extraterrestrial body striking the earth would provide an abrupt change in axis orientation, not the smooth changes Dodwell measured. Also, only a massive and fast asteroid striking the earth at a favorable angle would tilt the axis that much. However, the resulting pressure pulse would pass through the entire atmosphere and quickly kill most air-breathing animals―a recent extinction without evidence."
http://www.creationscience.com/onlineboo...
A variety of articles on a possible new Ice Age due to lower solar output...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/global...
http://www.iceagenow.com/Sunspots_and_gl...
Probably no right now, but it will.
