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#1 2005-03-02 4:18 pm
Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
Lately, I've been reading about past ice ages and found some amazing information that I didn't know:
We've had 17 ice ages in the last 2 million years that lasted about 100,000+ years each, with 10,000+ year periods in between (interglacial periods). We're now 2000 years overdue for the 18th ice age.
[NEW (Monday, May 9)]
Yellowstone Rated High To Erupt:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 … cano_x.htm
[NEW (Sunday, May 8)]
First Signs of Big Chill for Britain and Eastern US:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … 79,00.html
- The Arctic is MELTING for the first time in recorded history, and by the end of this century, there may be NO ICE in the arctic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news … r_ice.html
- The Antarctic is growing
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/co … hicker.htm
- Glaciers are moving rapidly
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, … ry_related
- Yellowstone is bulging (super volcano that erupts every 600,000 years-it's been 640,000 since the last eruption, so we're 40,000 years overdue)
http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm
- The North Magnetic Pole is moving rapidly
http://www.planetsave.com/ViewStory.asp?ID=4579
- The current connecting Western Europe [EDITED] and the northeast United States is failing (which gives those areas the warm summers they enjoy. Without that current, they'll be much colder year round).
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/cur … limate.htm
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/cur … e_wef.html
Another article I read said that there were over 320 tremors in Ecuador in 11 days recently.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi … sec=latest
http://www.millennium-ark.net/Reports/0 … r.EQs.html
So earthquakes in Indonesia, Ecuador, Iran, and Yellowstone is bulging...
Out of all those things, the Yellowstone bulging is the one that has me concerned. If that blows, everything within 500 miles would be under lava, and every state from California to Texas would be under several feet of volcanic ash.
If it blows...
[EDITED]: Many of you have written that it never snows in hawaii except on the mountains there, so I removed that statement since it happened 5 months ago and I can't remember the source (and you're right, I shouldn't have posted that without a source), but my whole office (work at a TV station) saw the weather report on the day it happened, and the reporter said it was rare to get that much snow there, but I would argue that if it was on a mountain where snow is pretty common in winter, why would the reporter say it had only happened once or twice in a 100 years?[/EDITED]
Alaska is warming up, affecting glacier movement:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news … ciers.html
Finally, this is weird: The last super volcano to blow (and killing most life on earth it seems) was 73000-75000 years ago near Sumatra (coincidentally not far from where the recent earthquake/tsunami took place).
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vol … /toba.html
It was around that time that Mars passed its closest to Earth. In August of 2003, Mars passed its closest again (a 73,000 year cycle it turns out), and now we're having all these earthquakes and plate motions...
Dang, just when my new site was taking off... 
More info:
http://www.alternet.org/story/17711
http://iceagenow.com/
John
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#2 2005-03-02 5:03 pm
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
I should start selling boats.
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#3 2005-03-02 5:04 pm
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
no. the earth is only 8,000 years old.
"Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb."
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#4 2005-03-02 5:07 pm
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Robert B. wrote:
no. the earth is only 8,000 years old.
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#5 2005-03-02 5:59 pm
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
ivanjs wrote:
- The current connecting England and the North East United States is...
Just England? Not Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Iceland, Etc. as well?
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#6 2005-03-02 6:05 pm
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
You should read Bill Brysons' "A Short History of Nearly Everything". It's packed fulla this kinda stuff.
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#7 2005-03-02 6:06 pm
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Fried Chicken wrote:
Robert B. wrote:
no. the earth is only 8,000 years old.
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#8 2005-03-02 6:08 pm
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JT wrote:
ivanjs wrote:
- The current connecting England and the North East United States is...
Just England? Not Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Iceland, Etc. as well?
You know, that's "England" in the "most of the Northern hemisphere" sense. 
Interesting links, I'll have to leave them until later when I've got a bit more time to peruse them.
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#9 2005-03-02 6:11 pm
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
smurf. Winter is already depressing when it's 4 months long.
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#10 2005-03-02 6:53 pm
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
shapoopy wrote:
smurf. Winter is already depressing when it's 4 months long.
At least you had a fawking winter. 
Snowboarding is depressing when there's no snow.
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#11 2005-03-02 7:44 pm
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I know exactly how it's gonna happen. I watched the Day After Tomorrow.
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#13 2005-03-02 9:52 pm
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Foundations wrote:
shapoopy wrote:
smurf. Winter is already depressing when it's 4 months long.
At least you had a fawking winter.
Snowboarding is depressing when there's no snow.
Dangerous, too.
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#14 2005-03-02 11:07 pm
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#16 2005-03-03 6:43 am
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Perhaps humans have effectively held off the next ice age because of global warming. Keep burning those fossil fuels boys, we need to keep the Earth from freezing over! Huzzah!
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#17 2005-03-03 7:03 am
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well i dont know about you, but *IM* fully prepaired to live in a bunker powered by sunlight with an 80 year MRE supply watching my fav shows on DVD.
I am neither the Alpha or the Omega, I am the instrument of your destruction.
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#18 2005-03-03 7:13 am
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Actually, one of the articles I read said just that-that global warming may have delayed it or even "skipped" it.
The arctic is melting MOSTLY because of ocean warming-there's a range of volcanos under the Arctic that are suddenly getting very restless, causing the water to get warmer, thus melting the arctic ice.
I wonder if the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia recently is part of this weird "why is everything happening now" global cycle? It WAS the 4th biggest earthquake of all time...
John
jeff-o wrote:
Perhaps humans have effectively held off the next ice age because of global warming. Keep burning those fossil fuels boys, we need to keep the Earth from freezing over! Huzzah!
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#19 2005-03-03 7:49 am
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Oops sorry! Actually the article I read actually said England, but I edited my post above and just said Western Europe!
JT wrote:
ivanjs wrote:
- The current connecting England and the North East United States is...
Just England? Not Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Iceland, Etc. as well?
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#20 2005-03-03 8:31 am
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
I hate all of this "we're overdue for this, we're overdue for that" The earth isn't a smurfing clock.
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#21 2005-03-03 9:05 am
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Actually, it is.
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the W'rkncacnter wrote:
I hate all of this "we're overdue for this, we're overdue for that" The earth isn't a smurfing clock.
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#22 2005-03-03 9:07 am
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2012!
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#23 2005-03-03 11:01 am
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Re: Endless Snow for Thousands of Years?
Actually, the pole isn't moving, it is weakening. Magnetic compasses might not be useful, in oh, a few thousand years when there are dozens of poles of varying strength. When you think about it, we are very very lucky (well not really) that this didn't happen when we were exploring the earth.
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#24 2005-03-03 12:25 pm
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Robert B. wrote:
no. the earth is only 8,000 years old.
In order for the earth to be 8 million years old, the mountains would have eroded several times over. There is no proof that the planet has been around such a record number of years. It is only between 6-8,000 years.
Actually a study was done on the oceans to Calcutta the rise of the water from all this "global warming" and "melting of the ice caps" What the scientist found is that the ocean is dropping foretelling the coming of the next ice age. This means that more moisture is going into the sky and building up just waiting to rain and snow for a long time. (I am searching for this now it was on PBS) Still I am not worried, there is nothing we can do to prevent it.
As for Yellowstone, I've just been there and it is a smoking, active land. I do believe that we should worry if the majority of the geysers, and vents get closed building up the gasses under ground. As for now I wouldn't worry, there is no evidence that ti will explode to an enormous proportion any time soon
As for Mars, true that the gravitation pull from a nearby planet can effect what happens on Earth (look at the moon an the tides) I don't believe that a close encounter with Mars will destroy life.
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