Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

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Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Rum » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:28 am

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

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:34 am

I shall treasure this pic I took in April then!

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Post by normal » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:36 am

Oh my. Better stock up on firewood :?
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:40 am

Chances are Cerns black hole machine as sunk one in the core of the sun. :(

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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by JimC » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:35 am

If global warming perfectly balances out an incipient ice age, then we should knight all the fossil fuel robber barons!
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by FBM » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:55 am

Dunno, Jim. Wouldn't it be fascinating to experience a mini Ice Age?
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by JimC » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:59 am

FBM wrote:Dunno, Jim. Wouldn't it be fascinating to experience a mini Ice Age?
Melbourne seems to be in the middle of one right now...

But I'll answer yes, if someone can recreate Mammoths and saber tooth tigers...
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Post by FBM » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:01 am

I think the technology exists, at least for the mammoths. Would love to have saber-tooths wandering around, too, tho. :tup:
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by JimC » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:04 am

FBM wrote:I think the technology exists, at least for the mammoths. Would love to have saber-tooths wandering around, too, tho. :tup:
Hopefully they will deal with the mammoth population explosion...
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by FBM » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:12 am

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FBM wrote:I think the technology exists, at least for the mammoths. Would love to have saber-tooths wandering around, too, tho. :tup:
Hopefully they will deal with the mammoth population explosion...
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:34 am

We're all gonna die !!! :hilarious:
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:08 pm

I live in Florida, so the breeze from up north will likely be refreshing.
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:31 pm

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.
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Geoff » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:43 pm

Gawdzilla wrote: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"
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Re: Global warming? Prefer a mini-ice age?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:45 pm

Geoff wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote: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.
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