Warmer temperatures can mean more ice in areas where it's always cold. Warmer temps means more evaporation, more evaporation means more condensation- most likely in snow form. In warmer areas it means less ice, but not everywhere.
Possible. Depending on what is refereed as an "Ice Age". Here is some examples. Let just say you live in Seattle, Washington. Every Millennial the earth will tilt further on it's axis pulling the northern hemisphere either towards or further away from the sun. With that the temperatures will drop and with moisture comes snow. Water will freeze below a certain degree below -32, with each decrease; the harder the ice develops.
Another reason can be environmental change. Think of 1 tree that can support 10 people in oxygen. So if there are 7 billion persons on earth and only a few million, maybe thousands; the higher the Carbon Dioxide potency. Plus, add the carbon release from each vehicle that is driven, each reactor that is running, the fuel that is being released from the ground. Plus add buildings. Cement, glass, and metal bounces heat from the surface just as plastic and rubber collects. Add all that together and you got yourself a hot house.
Or simply the earth is just trying to adapt to all this outrageous outburst from humans. The earth can only hold so much life, if humans keep developing more technology and over kill animals and other natural resources, than eventually humans will die off and go into extinction.
P.S. The desert is hot during the day and incredibly cold at night.
With Respect,
- Kurumu
Get a grip! According to the 1990 IPCC report, we were in a Global Warming crises in 1990. Also according to that same report, we came out of a Mini-Ice Age which bottomed out in 1650. The difference in temperature between 1650 and 1990 was 0.7 degree C. Do you really think 0.7 degree shift in Earth's temperature should constitute a crises?
Would somebody please define how much temperature drop would constitute going into an Ice Age? Would, let us say, 0.2 degree C drop in Earth's temperature constitute an immergence into an Ice Age? This was set by James Hansen in the 1990 report. Should it really be cause for concern? Can you even control your room's temperature that close?
So, if you can appreciate the scope of this non-problem, you can see that there is a fine line between scaring people with Global Warming or an imminent Ice Age.
"Fear is the most debilitating of all human emotions. A fearful person will do anything, say anything, accept anything, reject anything, if it makes him feel more secure for his own, his family's or his country's security and safety, whether it actually accomplishes it or not...."
"It works like a charm. A fearful people are the easiest to govern. Their freedom and liberty can be taken away, and they can be convinced to believe that it was done for their own good - to give them security. They can be convinced to give up their liberty - voluntarily."
―Gene E. Franchini, retired Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
So it is clear that the greenies attempt to create a crises is just a scare tactic and makes it easier to govern us. So get a grip and heed the words of Will Harper, Princeton University physicist, former Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy: “I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism....I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect....Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past.”
Get a grip. Scientifically this is normal.
Actually, scientists predict that another ice age will be happening very soon. I don't understand it considering Global Warming but it's happening. It doesn't' make any sense what so ever.
We will certainly go into another ice and in geological terms quite soon, with milankovitch and solar cycles it is inevitable, and a little bit of Co2 is not going to change it.
But you better hope we don't go into an Ice age, it is a terrible thing with 70% of our land mass either ice sheets or deserts. it would extinguish plants animals and us.
Glaciation is a very slow process. In order for carbon dioxide to prevent the next ice age, by accident or by design, it would have to be maintained above 300ppm for 100,000 years. A more likely scenario where humans could prevent the next ice age would be the urban heat island effect. Unless we blow ourselves up or all move into space, there will almost certainly by cities 100,000 years from now. One major glacier, the Columbia Glacier, could be contained by one of the four major urban regions in Canada; the Edmonton, Calgary corridor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary%E2%...
Now, if we can get a few million people to move to Baker Lake, Nunavut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Lake,...
Why don't people see that we will never have an ice age again especially with global warming? Warmer temperatures equal less ice.
