Scientists Predict Another Ice Age

[Sentry18]

I wonder who is going to use this news to get rich.


https://misanthrope.today/2019/11/01/scientists-predict-another-ice-age/

Scientists Predict Another Ice Age


Climate change activists may soon need to change their doomsday forecast that the earth will start disintegrating in about 12-years due to the much-touted greenhouse effect, and in fact be concerned in a rise in sea levels that may in fact be a precursor to another Ice Age, so says University of Chicago professor and the study’s co-author, Malte Jansen.

Professor Jansen using computer simulations within his research suggests that an increase in sea ice could significantly alter the circulation of the ocean, ultimately leading to a reverse greenhouse effect as carbon dioxide levels in the ocean increase and levels in the air decrease.


“One key question in the field is still what caused the Earth to periodically cycle in and out of ice ages,” asks Professor Jansen in a statement, adding; “We are pretty confident that the carbon balance between the atmosphere and ocean must have changed, but we don’t quite know how or why.”

A quick reference by yours truly, confirms that the last known ice age ended at the end of the Pleistocene period, roughly about 2.5 million years ago. Professor Jansen noted that glaciers have throughout earth’s history periodically grown and then gotten smaller.

Researchers also believe that changes to the Earth’s orbit may be partly responsible for some of the Earth’s cooling, but additional factors have likely played a part, Jensen added.

“The most plausible explanation is that there was some change in how carbon was divided between the atmosphere and the ocean,” Jansen continued. “There’s no shortage of ideas about how this happens, but it’s not quite clear how they all fit together.”

Scientists also believe that the most recent ice age may have in fact occurred roughly 12,800 years ago, however not as large or as well known and researched as those that covered 1/3 of the earth’s surface.

The “mini-ice age, scientists predict may have occurred when an asteroid “rocked the Northern Hemisphere” that led to the Younger Dryas climate event.

Jansen pointed out that the Southern Ocean around Antarctica “plays a key role in ocean circulation” due to the deep waters in the region, leading it to have “outsize[d] consequences.”

Adding, “What this suggests is that it’s a feedback loop,” said the study’s lead author, Alice Marzocchi. “As the temperature drops, less carbon is released into the atmosphere, which triggers more cooling.”

“What surprised me is how much of this increased storage can be attributed to physical changes alone, with Antarctic sea-ice cover being the key player,” Marzocchi added, noting that future study of the ocean and the role it plays in the carbon cycle can help simulate “future environmental change.”

One theory advanced by scientists is that earth is currently between ice ages, which have thus far lasted 2.5 million years, noting that glaciers have periodically covered the Earth and then retreated. Scientists, therefore, have been piecing together clues about how this process of glaciation works and how it’s triggered.

Professor Jansen believes that slight changes to Earth’s orbit likely led to some cooling, however that alone wouldn’t be able to trigger another ice age. There would have had to have been massive accompanying changes in the climate system to account for the amount of cooling that followed.

However, one thing is clear earth is a living and breathing planet, that has already experienced several massive ice ages, long before mankind inhabited this tiny life-sustaining sphere.

 

[camo2460]

Of course we're going to have another Ice Age, because the Climate is not Static, it runs in Cycles. The Earth wobbles as it spins on it's Axis, sometimes it wobbles toward the Sun, and sometimes it wobbles away from the Sun. When it wobbles toward the Sun it's Warmer and we get places like the Sahara Desert, when it wobbles away from the Sun it gets Colder and we get Ice Ages. This is a very Simplistic Explanation because there are other Variables, but generally that's how it works.

 

[Supervisor42]

I wonder who is going to use this news to get rich.
https://misanthrope.today/2019/11/01/scientists-predict-another-ice-age/

I gotta find the bright side to everything even though I hate the cold.....

If we get an Ice Age, maybe Californians will stop burning 1/8th of their state every year.

 

[dademoss]

Weren't we going to have an ice age predicted as coming in the late 70's- early 80's ?

 

[Supervisor42]

Weren't we going to have an ice age predicted as coming in the late 70's- early 80's ?

You are correct! 1977:

Fortunately, we all chipped in with our big-block engines and 4-barrel carburetors and saved the planet!:green man:

 

[phideaux]

I'm prepared...

Just hope it don't go Sub zero for too long, my barrel of water would freeze solid.

I will use my barn as my fridge.

Jim

 

[Amish Heart]

I'll use my front porch for my fridge.
All this rising tide predicted with global warming, why are famous people buying beachfront property?
So this means all the famous people will move to Mexico when the ice age comes?
I've been waiting for them to move to Canada since Trump won.
But Canada is north.

 

[Supervisor42]

I'm prepared...

Just hope it don't go Sub zero for too long, my barrel of water would freeze solid.

I will use my barn as my fridge.

Jim

What kinda heater do you have in the fallout shelter?
I know it doesn't have to be very big. Just curious.

 

[phideaux]

What kinda heater do you have in the fallout shelter?
I know it doesn't have to be very big. Just curious.View attachment 28882

I actually have 2 sources.
As you said it don't take much.

2 or 3 , 100 watt incandescent bulbs would keep the chill off, , but I have a 750 watt ceramic Heater,
And
I have a full size dehumidifier that runs 24/7 , 365 .
It puts off enough heat to keep it above 50 deg in there.

Days when the outside temp is below freezing , it's toasty inside with just the dehumidifier running , but I have to turn way down the humidistat to keep it running if I'm gonna be in there. Otherwise I set it at 50%.

Jim

 

[Supervisor42]

I actually have 2 sources.
As you said it don't take much.
2 or 3 , 100 watt incandescent bulbs would keep the chill off, , but I have a 750 watt ceramic Heater,
AndI have a full size dehumidifier that runs 24/7 , 365 .
It puts off enough heat to keep it above 50 deg in there.
Days when the outside temp is below freezing , it's toasty inside with just the dehumidifier running , but I have to turn way down the humidistat to keep it running if I'm gonna be in there. Otherwise I set it at 50%.

There ya' go!

 

[CrackbottomLouis]

Bring it on. I live in GA ad I'm tired of melting for most of the year.

 

[lonewolf]

only thing we get here is rain and lots of it.

 

[TBob]

bah humbug...Global warming will even it out...lol

 

[phideaux]

There ya' go!

I just hope , when this Ice Age comes , it don't stay Sub zero more than a week.
Because humidity will most likely drop to almost zero %, which would make the dehumidifier inoperable, and then I would have to run my 750w heater . Using my AH .
Using my battery pack and inverters, and possibly low sunshine for charging , could demand more and heavier clothing , making things uncomfortable.

No plan is absolutely perfect.

Heavy clothes...blaaaah.

Jim

 

[phideaux]

Well, they were right .

Ice age started last night...will last for...




At least 2 days.
12 degrees tonight.

Better go check my diesel stock.


Jim

 

[Amish Heart]

I'm tired of what "scientists" say

 

[Weedygarden]

From something I read years ago, there have been 5 ice ages on earth. I suppose there will be another one some day. I doubt we'll be here when it happens, but I have no idea.

 

[The Lazy L]

They can't reliably predict the weekend weather correctly so why we trust them when they say the earth has warmed up point one degree of the last 10,000 years?

 

[Cnsper]

They can't reliably predict the weekend weather correctly so why we trust them when they say the earth has warmed up point one degree of the last 10,000 years?

Hell, They can't predict yesterday's weather correctly.

I love it when you hear 30% chance of rain and you look outside, it's raining, and see frogs wearing life jackets.

 

[phideaux]

Well, they got this ice age right...it was 12 deg this morning.



Climate warming is predicted this coming Sunday.



Jim

 

[VThillman]

The entertaining thing about "Climate Change" is that, whatever you may believe about it, there are "Scientists" to support you. I haven't noticed a stance based on the number of freckles on Trump's butt, but it's probably out there.