Research Claims Earth Facing Ice Age
Posted on: Monday, 12 January 2009, 08:10 CST
Scientists are now making an alarming claim that the earth is on the brink of entering another Ice Age that could last the next 100,000 years.
They believe a 12,000-year warming period is currently winding down.
They say ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age patterns, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.
Experts point out that most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles.
The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, the shape of the earth’s orbit, and the Precession of the Equinoxes, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years.
The Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation claims that these three astronomical cycles work together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.
Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich theory has been recognized as the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists.
However, during the 1970s the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan and other scientists began promoting the theory that ‘greenhouse gasses’ such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, produced by human industries could lead to catastrophic global warming.
Now global warming is accepted as fact by most of the academic establishment, and scientists are encouraging governments to make pivotal changes to prevent its theoretical effects.
The main evidence cited in support of the global warming theory is the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.”
The ‘hockey stick’ graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures that began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006 and 2007.
Yet, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007 and 2008 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001.
Some experts believe the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008 and 2009 will probably equal or surpass the previous winter in both snow depth and cold temperatures.
A few researchers claim global warming is flawed because it focuses on evidence from the past one thousand years, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years.
However, some believe the data from paleoclimatology provides an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacials.
The British journal “Nature” published the results of data derived from glacial ice cores collected at the Russia ’s Vostok station in Antarctica during the 1990s.
The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacials occur within a regular cyclic pattern.
The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years, which means global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse as claimed by global warming.
In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.
Some say the release of CO2 by the warming oceans lags behind the changes in the earth’s temperature.
So global CO2 levels could continue to rise for another eight hundred years after the end of the earth’s current Interglacial warm period. Scientists believe we will be eight hundred years into the coming Ice Age before global CO2 levels begin to drop in response to the increased chilling of the world’s oceans.
The Vostok ice core data graph reveals that global CO2 levels regularly rose and fell in a direct response to the natural cycle of Ice Age minimums and maximums during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years. Within that natural cycle, about every 110,000 years global temperatures, followed by global CO2 levels, have peaked at approximately the same levels that they are at today.
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Original Source: Gregory F. Fegel / Pravda
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User Comments (15)
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Posted by mekala on 11/05/2009, 11:45 what is a ice age |
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Posted by Mike on 03/10/2009, 20:03 All right so this post thing has an auto censor on it. In the last post with the link you need to take out the *** in the URL and add in C U M to fufill the doC U Mentary portion |
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Posted by Mike on 03/10/2009, 20:01 Check out this BBC Documentary on global warming. All the scientists are named, the research referenced and the myth of global warming brought to light. The 70s scare of a global cooling is true. It also referenced in this film The Great Global Warming Swindle http://www.allamericanblogger.com/2953/the-best-global-warming-videos-on-the-internet-part-1-the-documentaries/ |
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Posted by Chris on 03/10/2009, 14:41 For all of you who are sure that global warming is such a long standing and prominent scientific revelation, do yourself a favor and look up the global cooling scare of the 70's. The same number of credible scientists were claiming we were on the fast track to a new ice age. I'm not denying that humans are leaving a scar on the planet, I'm just not entirely convinced that the Earth is going on a man-made warming trend. Also, look into the sudden cooling trend and the lack of solar activity in cycle 24. Cycle 23 was relatively active and guess what, we noticed a warming trend. |
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Posted by Go Suzuki Go! on 03/01/2009, 06:25 This is a load of crap. The writers have absolutely no idea of the concepts behind global warming OR human induced climate change. In the middle of the article, the writers make the claim that current scientists have only used the past 1 000 years to make human enduced climate change predictions, and not the past million. However, they seem to argue that they can use the past TWO winters to prove that we are indeed COOLING. Wow... what a load of crap. Anyone with any knowledge of human induced climate change understands that the warming of our planet will cause CHANGES in temperatures and precipitation levels. As well, storms and weather events will become occure more frequntly, last longer in duration, and will increase in intensity... which is a much better explanation for the increase in snow fall and decrease in temperatures in the northern latituds. Be Critical! |
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Posted by Nick on 02/13/2009, 20:46 Warning! This is pure counter-spin. With no names or citations, it is plainly an attempt to cast doubt on real, well-cited, peer-reviewed research that shows a warming trend. Peer-review is important. It means that people who are not getting paid by your research-grant have said that your research meets a standard of professionalism and therefore deserves careful reading. Peer-review is why global warming has been taken seriously by educated, literate people of the world. If, however, you have been so successfully propagandized by \"some people say\" or \"scientists now believe\" public-relations spin that you feel vindicated by this article, you are proof that semi-literate people are a danger to society. You will know yourself to be semi-literate when you can say without fear of contradiction that you \"can read but don\'t read anything difficult.\" This article gets a stumble-upon thumbs down from me. The reason: no way to verify its claims. |
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Posted by kjinx on 02/13/2009, 13:43 You don't get it do you? No ones cares about "the Science". Global Warming supports a political agenda, and one which is firmly and securely in power in both government and academia. Beware if your "Science" contradicts it! You're were worried about the "Patriot Act" in terms of the loss of freedom? You definitely should be ... but wait until the liberal thought fascists get cranked up with the populous media and the government fed universities in line to back them up. You ain't seen anything yet. As frightening as the Bushites were, Nancy Pelosi and her mob aren't worse. |
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Posted by Paul on 02/12/2009, 15:03 Can I just say, the scientists need to make up their minds... First we are going to turn into a hell pit, now we are turning into the Ice Age. Let's make a decision. |
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Posted by Flonkbob on 02/12/2009, 13:24 This is interesting to be sure. When I was a youngster I was of the opinion that an Ice Age was coming simply because that has been the pattern for so long...but I admit to being swayed by current evidence of Global Warming. I have to say now, though, that I\'m unsure of which is more valid...and of course the idea that the normal cycle will bury any effect of man\'s activity is not too hard to believe. Maybe I\'ll invest in parka manufacturing and solar powered snowmobiles. |
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Posted by Is This All Made Up? on 01/27/2009, 14:56 Where are the sources? What is this, Us Weekly? Name one of those scientists, the university or commission he/she works for, or a REAL journalistic source please. |
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Posted by Mister T on 01/14/2009, 10:14 When you see people reacting like Arnold, you know that they are full of fear that their fantasy-based global warming religion is finally being unmasked for the public fraud it is. Al Gore is looking to use fear to profit from investments in unprofitable and unproductive energy alternatives which will make the current sub prime mess look like a small convenience store robbery by comparison. |
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Posted by Mister T on 01/14/2009, 10:11 The Vostok Ice Core data and related charts showing CO2 lag can be found. scroll down here. Just as a warm bottle of soda release more CO2, so does a warm ocean. CO2 is a LAGGING indicator of the earth warming. Warming the continues to be directly related to the single most significant continuos influence, aka THE SUN. http://www.sciencebits.com/IceCoreTruth |
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Posted by Arnold T on 01/12/2009, 13:04 Right-Wing Propaganda that they literally make up. They lie right to your face. The article is a fabrication of half-truths, distortions, mis-direction and outright deceit. This author has all the ingredients of a master con-artist at work. |
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Posted by Bubba From TN on 01/12/2009, 10:51 We are all going to freeze to death because of Al Gore! Start emitting more CO2 before we get too cold! Get out your SUV's and rev em up. |
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Posted by Bryan on 01/12/2009, 08:49 What's the source of the study? Scientists is a little vague. I'd love to share this story with others, but without the source to cite, it's kind of ineffective as case-building link. Please cite your sources. Thank you |
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