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Sure, we overreact to the global warming scare and now we have to worry about global cooling.
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
I'm going to start burning tires to see if I can help avert this catastrophe!
and keep on running...
Maybe we need mass suicide to keep this catastrophe from happening. Start with the scientists that say we are going nto global warming, and end with the ones saying we are headed for an ice age.
Both at the same time... How odd can that be!
by boxfiddler
on NatGeo, the coming Ice Age is a direct result of global warming. Been a couple months since I watched it so explaining that is beyond me, but I do recall thinking it made sense in an odd sort of way.
Thankfully it is quite unlikely that I will be around for the worst of any of it. No progeny to suffer the consequences of our stupidity and greed either. Ha.
by seanferd
would be changing ocean currents due to freshwater disrupting "the conveyor", and the way the Gulf Steam circulates through the N. Atlantic.
A really simplified model: Warm water circulates to the north at the surface, gives up heat and becomes denser, sinks deeper, and returns toward the south. When too much fresh water is entering the system through the runoff of melting ice-sheets and glaciers, it adds a third layer, between the other two, like an insulator. The warm-but-cooling saltwater is not dense enough to sink through the cold fresh water fast enough to continue the current in its present form. The ocean circulation could stall or be diverted in a way that does not bring enough heat north from the equator to keep the northern landmasses warm the way we like it.
Water at the same temperature as land has a higher actual heat content. Without the ocean bringing heat north from the equator to keep the air warm, the landmasses would cool off enough that, in the extreme, it would never be warm enough in the summer to melt all the previous winter's snow.
Aha! a bit of a picture:
http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/32.htm
Edit: And here, if I use term thermohaline:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation
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by boxfiddler
'The Conveyor"
Whoever invented conveyors in the first place should fix it! ;)
by nicknielsen
After all, [u]everybody[/u] knows that the [b]only[/b] thing that affects our climate is greenhouse gases!
by puppybreath
move South
In the article it stated that the effects were in the Northern Hemisphere, which means the Southern Hemisphere would remain the same (for some odd reason). So if we all move to the Southern Hemisphere, we will never suffer the effects again!
by nicknielsen
by seanferd
Mostly ocean in the south. Water has a higher heat content than land.
Okay, I'm lying. It's magic. :D
by jellimonsta
by seanferd
Exactly how does it happen?
More importantly, how is the invasion going?
Care to become Minister of Intelligence? :D
by seanferd
we should shoot all of our nukes into the sky, and then invade every coutry in the southern hemisphere.. There, nothing more to worry about...
:^0
by seanferd
We can get a jump on everyone else. Let's take out Canada, too, just for kicks.
Unless Bob gets there first.
http://angryflower.com/paulmc.html
"what kind of peril"
"I hardly think that is important"
Ohhh good stuff.
Yes, we gotta snea a blow at Canada or They May Just Follow Us South....
We cannot let that happen.
by the maverick phantom wanderer (formerly macoza, nodice, kp, etc.)
by seanferd
we'll let you go first.
Perfect. Let them pave the way for us. How economical is that?
You are hereby promoted to Minister of War and Finance.
by seanferd
by nicknielsen
by puppybreath
by nicknielsen
With all the hype about global warming, it's been so long since I've seen real science I probably wouldn't recognize it if I did!
Oh, wait...
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