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New study: Permanent “ice age” coming

Geez, make up your minds, will ya?  Are we going to broil to death or freeze to death?  Man, this global “warming” thingy is hard to figure out!  Anywho, here’s the latest:

A new analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years, published in Nature, concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.

In essence, says one of the two authors, Thomas J. Crowley of the University of Edinburgh, the ice age cycles over the past million years are a super-slow-motion variant of the dramatic jostlings recorded by a seismograph in an earthquake before the ground settles into a new quiet state. He and William T. Hyde of the University of Toronto used climate models and other techniques to assess the chances that the world is witnessing the final stages of a 50-million-year transition from a planet with a persistent warm climate and scant polar ice to one with greatly expanded ice sheets at both poles. …

If for no other reason than to save the planet, go buy a Hummer.  Or start drilling as many oil wells as possible.  Or figure out how to make cows fart more often.  Either/or, Mother Gaia is counting on you, oh “citizens of the world”! 

November 13, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | global warming