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I like the last paragraph of the article...
quote:As the Earth's surface-level climate warms up, the coldest region of the atmosphere, where these clouds exist, actually gets colder. The colder it gets, the farther the clouds reach.
For those who say global warming can't be happening because we are due for an ice age...It doesn't have to be one or the other. In truth, the more we do warm the more drastic the resultant ice age is likely to be.
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Yes, that a large part of the Earth's surface is below the freezing point of water does no mean the average temperature is.
Stopping the conveyor would mean that the oceans have no means of transferring warm tropical waters out of the tropics, thereby bringing lower temperatures to the polar regions.
Allowing the northern polar region to melt too much lets fresh water into the North Atlantic, stopping the conveyor and bringing an ice age, even with the average surface temperature above what we now have.
Once stopped, restarting that conveyor may be impossible. The momentum of that many billions of tons of standing water may just be too great.
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in this book he discusses the possibility that the ice caps could get so heavy they tip the earth 90 degrees on its axis so that the ice caps end up on the equator and then melt causing a great flood...
gee, that's never happened before has it ?
he also discusses near earth orbiting objects, and all kinds of interesting ancient history, but it's mostly supposition, not really factual stuff. he does present it all as guessing so it's not as though he's trying to convince people about non-facts, just possibilities...
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there's so many "bad things" that could happen that it really is a miracle we have such a friendly place to live... too bad so many people take it for granted.
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: you'd probably like this book Tex:
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
in this book he discusses the possibility that the ice caps could get so heavy they tip the earth 90 degrees on its axis so that the ice caps end up on the equator and then melt causing a great flood...
gee, that's never happened before has it ?
he also discusses near earth orbiting objects, and all kinds of interesting ancient history, but it's mostly supposition, not really factual stuff. he does present it all as guessing so it's not as though he's trying to convince people about non-facts, just possibilities...
Interesting book, I recommend it... He wrote another one called "Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization", I want to read it but haven't yet.
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