Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

[laklak]

I live in Florida, so the breeze from up north will likely be refreshing.

It'll beat shit out of the bloody Northwest furnace wind we're dealing with now.

[Geoff]

I read a story once about a group of people walking south to escape an advancing wall of ice. They continually moved, gathering whatever food they could find, until that day when they saw a white line on the southern horizon. It was another wall of glaciers heading north.

That's Arthur C Clarke: "History lesson"

Was there a film can in that one?

Yep! they're carrying a precious relic, that turns out to be a Mickey Mouse film and they worship him as a god, or something like that...haven't read it for ages. Part two has aliens discovering it thousands of years later, and thinking Mickey Mouse represented humans...

Must re-read some Clarke; it's been too long!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I read a story once about a group of people walking south to escape an advancing wall of ice. They continually moved, gathering whatever food they could find, until that day when they saw a white line on the southern horizon. It was another wall of glaciers heading north.

That's Arthur C Clarke: "History lesson"

Was there a film can in that one?

Yep! they're carrying a precious relic, that turns out to be a Mickey Mouse film and they worship him as a god, or something like that...haven't read it for ages. Part two has aliens discovering it thousands of years later, and thinking Mickey Mouse represented humans...

Must re-read some Clarke; it's been too long!

Thanks! I loved how the aliens thought the people of Earth were incredibly tough to survive such damage and carry on.

ETA: The film can was "holy", and bad things would happen if they opened it. (Mainly that the film would unwind and make a mess, but using "religion" to enforce the rule was the subtle point Clarke made there, "religious laws" have mundane origins and get elevated when people stop thinking about them and "just do it".

[Geoff]

http://web.math.hr/~veky/T/T1/historylesson.txt

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://web.math.hr/~veky/T/T1/historylesson.txt

[mistermack]

Sun spot patterns appear to indicate we may well be heading for a mini-ice age. Its all here:-

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/69r1QA/ww ... 4/ice_age/

If I was small minded, I would say "
Told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so
told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you sotold you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so ."

So I won't.

[Coito ergo sum]

The sun has something to do with the Earth's climate changing????

[Atheist-Lite]

The sun ain't stable.

[laklak]

.Al Gore warned you! He said we're going to all drown in massive tsunami rising sea level thingys! We're doomed! AAAAGGGGGHHHH! We're KILLING the PLANET! Sell your pickup truck you selfish motherfucking redneck! Buy a Prius! Compost your shit! Throw away those horrible incandescent bulbs! Get a horse! AAAGGGGH!

Hang on, what's that? An ice age? Really? Damn.....

Never mind.

[Woodbutcher]

Is that magazine related to the Onion? Like humour?

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... on-it.html

This thread needs to be merged with my Heatwave thread and the title here should be put in the waste basket and be replaced with my Heatwave title. Let reason overcome prejudice Pappa, a change gotta come?

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[Feck]

Sun spot patterns appear to indicate we may well be heading for a mini-ice age. Its all here:-

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/69r1QA/ww ... 4/ice_age/

If I was small minded, I would say "
Told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so
told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you sotold you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so ."

So I won't.

Good because if you did you would look like an idiot .

[mistermack]

Good because if you did you would look like an idiot .

Well, I certainly won't then. Although I did tell everyone an ice-age was due.
Damn ! There must be one hell of a good looking idiot out there !
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[Orwellian]

The Party will institute a program to increase greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate against the sun's climate change activities.

[Coito ergo sum]

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