Ice age unlikely for 1,500 years due to high carbon levels:

[styky]

Ice age unlikely for 1,500 years due to high carbon levels: study

Reuters Jan 9, 2012 – 1:20 PM ET
High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, an article in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Monday.

Concentrations of the main gases blamed for global warming reached record levels in 2010 and will linger in the atmosphere for decades even if the world stopped pumping out emissions today, according to the U.N.’s weather agency.

An ice age is a period when there is a long-term reduction in the earth’s surface and atmospheric temperature, which leads to the growth of ice sheets and glaciers.................http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/09 ... els-study/

[styky]

New paper: AGW may save us from the next ice age
Posted on January 8, 2012 by Anthony Watts

As mentioned in our WUWT story earlier today Increased CO2 Emissions Will Delay Next Ice Age the official press release is now out at Eurekalert and published below. I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth already. Bottom line, you can manage a hot summer, but you can’t get out of the way of tons of ice. Unfortunately, the authors find a way to make this out to be bad news, by suggesting Antarctica is melting. So far, we’ve seen no evidence of that. In fact Antarctic Sea Ice is trending upwards in the past 30 years:...................http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/08/n ... t-ice-age/

[RedDog]

+7c again right now in the middle of January. I'm groovin' this carbon action big time. I still haven't worn gloves this winter. Keep it coming. Oh carbon how I've come to love thee.

[styky]

+7c again right now in the middle of January. I'm groovin' this carbon action big time. I still haven't worn gloves this winter. Keep it coming. Oh carbon how I've come to love thee.

A poster at wattsupwiththat.com hit the nail on the head re this study.....

Mark Penn says:
January 9, 2012 at 3:36 am

One of this papers protagonists was on BBC R4 this morning (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0194dj5 if you care to listen, adout 2 hours 45 minutes in). Apparently, not only have we saved ourselves from an ice age but we have gone too far and are in even graver danger! Its all based on models (assumption), predictions (assumption) and theory (assumptions) . I think even arch warmist John Humprys was struggling to hide his incredulity with this interview.

This is pure propaganda dressed up as science (as usual).

[Lyonnese]

The relatively high carbon levels that are anthropomorphic can be controlled overnight BTW. It represents a paltry.003% of overall greenhouse gasses incidentally hardly worth crying over. All this masking the slow emergence of a solar minimum. What is that you ask? The suns heat cycles.Yes there are cycles called minimums and maximums already existing in the scientific peer reviewed literature. forget about the Norwich University crowd. They are there to obfuscate the naive researcher. The real science shows we are heading into a colder world; ice age perhaps.
We are in the process of a solar minimum now. Great brown Clouds of pollution mostly generated by China's industrial engine and power plants using coal, both are the main culprits BTW. This requires Political criticism on a global scale. Will any Nation\NGO's step forward and call a spade a spade.NO!
Where is the UN when you need them most...LOL. They are part of this problem...ha ha ha. There's the rub!
It goes all the way to the Vatican if you really want the truth

[styky]

The relatively high carbon levels that are anthropomorphic can be controlled overnight BTW. It represents a paltry.003% of overall greenhouse gasses incidentally hardly worth crying over. All this masking the slow emergence of a solar minimum. What is that you ask? The suns heat cycles.Yes there are cycles called minimums and maximums already existing in the scientific peer reviewed literature. forget about the Norwich University crowd. They are there to obfuscate the naive researcher. The real science shows we are heading into a colder world; ice age perhaps.
We are in the process of a solar minimum now. Great brown Clouds of pollution mostly generated by China's industrial engine and power plants using coal, both are the main culprits BTW. This requires Political criticism on a global scale. Will any Nation\NGO's step forward and call a spade a spade.NO!
Where is the UN when you need them most...LOL. They are part of this problem...ha ha ha. There's the rub!
It goes all the way to the Vatican if you really want the truth

They don't even bring up the 7 Indonesian Volcanoes blowing their lids right now so I guess in their view it's not worth mentioning.

[Brexx]

Every Canadian should consider it their civic duty to emit as much CO2 as possible. Its good for the environment, and it might even warm the climate slightly, which is a good thing.

As for the polar bears - in the airborne we had a saying, "if you can't hack it, you can't stay",. I'd say that should apply to the polar bears and any other species that can't adapt to some change.

[Number 6]

If enough ash gets into the atmosphere with the volcanoes erupting, it will block out the sun and it will get colder. Remember Mt Pinatubo. or Krakatoa. We will have polar bears knocking over garbage cans in the big cities when the great cold hits. Or at least I hope so.

NOT a fan of warm winters. BIG fan of polar bears. Well I am sure the would get govt jobs in any case if worse comes to worse. Or working at Coca Cola.

Or they can go nibble on Reddog, who actually likes this warm weather. Isnt the fact you get to go south for spring training enough. to allow your winter loving Alberta compatriots a bit of cold and snow??
I wonder if I could pitch a tent on Mt. Edith Cavell about now. Gotta be colder up there. Bow Valley summit maybe.

[J.B. Stone]

Ice age unlikely for 1,500 years due to high carbon levels:

I'm in no rush............

[backhoe]

Ahem!

http://www.baen.com/library/067172052X/067172052X.htm



See, we told you so...

[Lyonnese]

Again China is the biggest emitter of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses. Its not politically correct to calla spade a spade and call China on this little number. These great brown clouds are causing such a smog problem here on the west coast\BC. Many days are hazy now in the Okanagan Valley with this shiite...and we think its natural...ha ha ha. Its toxic crap from China causing lung problems with our children at an early age..

[Neo-Liberal]

Again China is the biggest emitter of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses. Its not politically correct to calla spade a spade and call China on this little number. These great brown clouds are causing such a smog problem here on the west coast\BC. Many days are hazy now in the Okanagan Valley with this shiite...and we think its natural...ha ha ha. Its toxic crap from China causing lung problems with our children at an early age..

That is true about pollution from China. However, let`s not fall into that disingenuous trap the left uses of conflating real pollution and something necessary for human survival like CO2.

[styky]

The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?

[styky]

New Physics Today Article “The Triggering And Persistence Of The Little Ice Age” By Bertram M. Schwarzschild
http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2 ... arzschild/

[styky]

Top Scientists, Government Agencies and Publications Have – For Over 100 Years – Been Terrified of a New Ice Age
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/ ... e-age.html