Car drivers save earth from ice age
Car drivers save earth from ice age
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thinfourth2

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32,414 posts

235 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-1643...

As a child of the 70s i was alway told i was going to die due to the coming ice age

Now we have defeated the ice age

Don't range rovers ROCK

honest_delboy

1,767 posts

231 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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Nice work fellas, all of you give yourselves a pat on the back !

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

259 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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Just how the hell can they forecast an ice age when they can't even forecast long term weather properly?

('They' being anyone weather bods).

Eric Mc

125,855 posts

296 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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"Ice Age" is climate, not weather.

Why were there no ice caps at all for around 200 million years?

Derek Smith

50,007 posts

279 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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The theory - the Milankovitch cycles - has been around for some years. it's hardly new. The suggetion of the carbon emissions putting off (not saving us from) another ice age was on a Discovery programme a few years ago. Alos in theat programme was the suggestion that when all aircraft were grounded in the wake of 9/11 the temperature in the USA rose a measurable amount due to lack of contrails.

Oakey

27,984 posts

247 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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Erm, we're still coming out of an Ice Age aren't we? Hence the polar caps?

turbobloke

117,501 posts

291 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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It's an interesting exit strategy...human emissions saving the planet (oh the irony) from an ice age.

Unfortunately apart from providing the aforementioned previously 'mission impossible' exit strategy for the embarrassed faithful and conned politicians, should they choose to accept it, it has nothing to offer regarding prevention of any ice age.

There is no visible causal human signal in global climate data - in effect, no attributable human impact on global climate has been seen. How it could be asserted that we are saving the planet via tax gas, in spite of no previous sightings that we were harming it that way, is a mystery that's fathomable only to those in receipt of the mystical powers of true belief that let them see invisible things.

As a result we can safely assume that the next ice age will happen when it's going to happen.

AJS-

15,366 posts

267 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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I got as far as "By Richard Black" and thought this is going to be a load of rubbish.


turbobloke

117,501 posts

291 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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Safe.

Laurel Green

31,261 posts

263 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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Guam said:
More nonsense we have minimal impact at best <if any at all> on the climate.

We could no more prevent an Ice Age than Canute could stem the tide smile
I don't care. I'm giving myself a pat on the back, so there! wink

Norfolkit

2,394 posts

221 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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Eric Mc said:
"Ice Age" is climate, not weather.

Why were there no ice caps at all for around 200 million years?
Weather - when the weather doesn't fit the theory, it's just weather

Climate - when the weather does fit the theory

Dear Met Office, can you tell me what the weather will be like at the end of the week, no?, I won't make any plans yet then.

Dear Met Office, can you tell me what the weather will be like at the end of the century, you can?, great I'll make plans then

fk off

Apache

39,731 posts

315 months

Monday 9th January 2012
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time to reverse the VED tax rates then