News Carbon emissions 'defer Ice Age'

[opticle]

Eek.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16439807

Well now I don't know whether to be righteous and on my high-horse or happy

 

[old.Tohtori]

Best bet is to not give f*ck and not jump on bandwagons started on silly science articles

 

[Raven]

Great news! Now we just need to warm it up enough so that I don't have to put the heating on!

 

[Job]

This shit is about as useful as saying at the present rate of acceleration my car will reach the speed of light in 2070.

 

[rynnor]

Is it April fools day?

This starts badly and just gets worse.

1 relies on reconstructed data of past interglacials.

2 compares said reconstruction with recent records but we cant even agree when the last glaciation phase finished so comparing them is meaningless.

3 one thing we do know is that the conditions will not be the same in the next ice age because they never are.

4 We will all be long dead before they could be proven wrong so its a soft target.

 

[Raven]

I am not even sure it has finished receding...

I thought the idea is the icecaps recede at the end of an ice age, which apparently they are still doing at an "OMFG ALARMING!11212!!!" rate*

*even though, technically they aren't according to a study. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/sea_ice.html

 

[Exioce]

To be honest I believe that J. Craig Venter or someone like him will solve this particular problem long before that.

 

[TdC]

1 relies on reconstructed data of past interglacials.

I read that as interracials. sorry

 

[rynnor]

I am not even sure it has finished receding...

I thought the idea is the icecaps recede at the end of an ice age, which apparently they are still doing at an "OMFG ALARMING!11212!!!" rate*

*even though, technically they aren't according to a study. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/sea_ice.html [/quote]

When you are really out of an Ice age theres no ice at the poles - but the world in general has cooled since the cretaceous high so we are now stuck in a cycle of repeated glaciation - maybe its the run up to a snowball earth event in a few million years?