An Ice Age brought on by global warming was the scenario depicted in the movie THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. While the science on which the movie based has been called into question, there may be some merit in the theory that global warming could cause an Ice Age.
Why is Europe’s climate comparitively milder than other places at the same latitude? Alaska and Greenland, both the same distance to the North Pole as Europe, are covered with ice and permafrost while most of Europe is not.
The ocean currents called the Gulf Stream bring warm waters up to Europe from the Caribbean. This water brings warmth to the countries in its path. Cooler water from Europe feeds back into the loop and causes the water to flow back to the Caribbean in a continuous cycle.
The Gulf Stream has been significantly weakened in every major cooling event, including the last great Ice Age. In the past this weakening has been brought on by natural events. In current times, global warming brought on by human activities could be the cause of slowing or even stopping the Gulf Stream. If this were to happen, the cold waters would stay in the area of Europe and the Northeastern US and could mean an Ice Age for those regions.
If an Ice Age occurs, it will likely be due to the melting of polar ice. This will dump large quantities of cold, fresh water into the ocean. It would disrupt the Gulf Stream and cause the cooling of many areas that now have milder climates. The return flow of cold water from Greenland, which goes back to the Caribbean, has already showed a weakening over the last 50 years. There has been a twenty percent decline in the amount of current flowing in this direction. It stands to reason that the warm waters returning from the Caribbean have also decreased in volume. The change would not be gradual. This is a phenomenon that takes place rather quickly. Perhaps it does not happen as fast as depicted in THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. However, it could happen within a few short years.
A slowing or stoppage of the Gulf Stream would affect the entire earth. Observations have been made of current data and historical information gleaned by studying the ocean and the lands around it. With all the information at hand, it appears that it is indeed possible that global warming could bring about a modern Ice Age.
Information is the key to dealing with the Global Warming and Climate Change situation. You can get more information at www.globalwarming-101.com
In junior high my science teacher said that the world would be out of fossil fuels by the year 2000. Links: Pacific Research Institute – watch the movie www.aconvenientfiction.com environment.pacificresearch.org Reid A. Bryson – scroll down for ice cap article www.wecnmagazine.com Solar Activity: A dominant factor in climate dynamics – scroll down read sections in blue www.john-daly.com BBC’s The Great Global Warming Swindle video.google.com Other possible causes for global warming www.physorg.com In our previous version of this show we quoted the number of deaths from the lake Nyos tragedy incorrectly. We pride ourselves in our determination to make corrections, even if it means loosing star ratings, views, and comments. Thanks for your understanding.
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July 27th, 2010 at 4:16 am
the guy in the suv was me
July 27th, 2010 at 4:27 am
Spaceflight burns Hydrogen right? This guys right about one thing. We drive around in big honki’ SUV’s with little regard to the fact that we really don’t need to but want to. Fossil fuels are getting harder to extract and the enviromental disaster in the Gulf is very real. It’s tied directly to the use of fossil fuels and the more we use the more we increase the likelyhood of running out before there are firm sustainable solutions in place. C02, CO, sulfer etc. All poisonous BTW.
July 27th, 2010 at 4:52 am
@BelieversinThings One what? Look I can supply references for all I have posted – unlike antiscience right wingers.
July 27th, 2010 at 5:49 am
@StunnedByStupidity Name one.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:10 am
He’s talking about junior high school because that the highest degree he got. The conclusion: if you are an idiot, don’t make videos and post them on youtube.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:24 am
@StunnedByStupidity Look BILLIONS of peoples lives are at risk. The state we are in in WAY worse than what you are being told. STOP BEING SO IRRESPONSIBLE and confusing people with silly arrogant nonsense – YOU DONT KNOW BETTER THAT ALL THE WORLDS SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS, .Put down your ego and step away from your arrogance – this isn’t a game this is THE biggest threat to life on Earth for AT LEAST 50 MILLION years…
July 27th, 2010 at 6:55 am
@StunnedByStupidity They have campaigned – NON VIOLENTLY – for DECADES patiently trying to encourage right wing scum bags to act – and YOU have the audacity to complain when they get scared? You are just beyond contempt! We are rapidly heading towards concentrations which will cause tipping points, taking the option to act out of our hands! UNDERSTAND?
Then you say everything will be fine in a decade or 2? Based on what? Malthusian is wrong? Stupider and stupider said Alice…
July 27th, 2010 at 7:48 am
@StunnedByStupidity And the ‘I’m not anti environmental’ sounds exactly like the racists who isn’t racists I mean he had a black friend once. You of course can give a reading list of the books you have read around the subject? And scare tactics are used because WE ARE SCARED – the issue has been known for decades:
’1958 global warming’ on youtube
97% of CLIMATOLOGISTS agree. ALL – that’s every single one of the worlds TOP scientific institutions, and just about all the peer reviewed science
July 27th, 2010 at 8:02 am
@StunnedByStupidity want the geoengineering (though admittedly with the MAJORITY of scientists already thinking we are fucked – because of delayers like you – are thinking that it maybe the lesser of 2 evils). Newsweek is NOT a peer reviewed journal. And even in the 70 the majority of scientists thought that global warming was real and a greater threat that the cooling of sulphates. And we are ‘probably not’ a big contribution? Based on what pray tell?
July 27th, 2010 at 8:25 am
@StunnedByStupidity quantities cause harm to human health and/or well being. CO2 fits the bill! Increase CO2 and plants grow better. It also raises temperature and causes droughts. Now double CO2 around a plant and half its water – still doing well is it? SHEEZ… Billionaire idiot being slagged off by thousandaire idiot? Hmmm… In underground oil or water? Eh? And classification error. The industrialists want a market solution the environmentalists want a behavior change. The industrialists
July 27th, 2010 at 8:28 am
@StunnedByStupidity The sun peaked around 1960. And since 1980 has been decreasing! While temperatures rise! Don;t like the graph (you will find it all over). Then go get your own to prove otherwise (you’ll be wanting a mulit decadal starting around 1950…). And taxing is bad? Yeah with your stunningly arrogant demeanor, you are either a narcissist or wealthy. Screw reality eh? And water vapor is a FEEDBACK not forcing on climate (read a book eh…) A pollutant is any substance insufficient
July 27th, 2010 at 9:12 am
You science teach was not a PEER REVIEWED scientist. There are NOT 2 side. The delay is for stupid people – I take it if you car breaks down and you start to push it then reach a hill it WONT accelerate because you and not the hill started it moving? VERY VERY VERY stupid – and gullible. Al Gore has NOTHING to do with the reality of global warming – thats a SCIENTIFIC issue. It aint the sun:
‘Solar activity & climate: is the sun causing global warming?’ on google
July 27th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Personally I just think we need to stop using fossil fuels; we are using them faster than they can be made. If global warming stops after the last petrol engine is turned off, then so be it.
July 27th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Saying “global warming will kill everything” isn’t a scare tactic if it’s true! Humans need to take responsibility for their actions. Nature shouldn’t have to suffer for the arrogance and ignorance of men.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:18 am
@MF0TY Banned and yet somehow they are tolerant and accepting of everyone, unless they have morals or disagree with their beliefs?.. What ever though opinions are like ass holes, everyones got one and they all stink. So you live your life and don’t tax me for living the way I want to live, and I and the millions of other like minded Americans wont shoot you, fair deal? Anyone else agree?
July 27th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Global warming is a scare tactic liberals want to use to control your life just the way they’ll label you a racist to cover up Obama’s preacher if you disagree with his policies the way the media wants to demonize anyone who disagrees with the liberal agenda and the way liberals believe everyone other than themselves are fucking morons who can’t run their own lives because their too stupid to do it correctly and you need to be taxed the shit out of on things they think are wrong or have them -
July 27th, 2010 at 11:18 am
Thumbs up if you’re sick of the nerds writing 2-3 paragraphs on their opinion on crap that I could care less about.
July 27th, 2010 at 11:55 am
@camydoger Flawed assumption. That is all.
July 27th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
@freakyfarooq Since the emissions in the UK fell last year I assumed the rest of the world’s emissions had fallen.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
@camydoger Ever heard of AVERAGE effect? How about you read up on that
July 27th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
@freakyfarooq Go read up on what “exponential” actually means.
CO2 emissions in the UK fell last year. That doesn’t sound like exponential to me.
July 27th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Al Gore is not a scientist — and the scientists don’t make the mistakes this fast-talking-dude accuses of Gore of making, or that one Newsweek article about the ice age — there has never been a consensus. Y2K, acid rain and the ozone hole all failed to be the predicted disasters because a whole lot of people got off their butts and did something about it. It’s time you graduated from arguing against the predictions of your junior high science teacher and learn some science.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
@thedsearch
CO2 is a natural product. There is nothing in petroleum that is not natural – everything that is produced by burning it is also natural. Whether it is bad is another matter.
Also, CO2 was far higher during the time of the dinosaurs. It is feasible that the Earth is really still recovering from the extinction event that killed all the dinosaurs and thrust the climate into the worst ice age in history.
July 27th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
well said
July 27th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Do you remember Y2k, or when California was going to slide into the ocean, how about when all the planets line up and pull the earth apart, the hole in the Ozone, Meteors crashing into the Earth, Aids killing off the population, the run away flesh eating bacteria, by the year 2000 the population explodes it will take 6 months for a dinner reservation or to go to a movie, but seriously run for your life the sky is falling get to shelter, protect yourself. It’s all going to happen in 2012. NOT!