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Global Warming May Trigger Mini-Ice Age

Posted by Cliff on from the glaciers-over-the-northern-hemisphere dept.

Further information on the consequences of global warming have arisen from a surprising source. Fortune is running an article on how global warming could trigger a massive climate shift in the Northern Hemisphere. According to the article: 'Global warming, rather than causing gradual, centuries-spanning change, may be pushing the climate to a tipping point.' and that 'abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future'. One of the consequences of this climate shift might be an ice age, ranging from the severe "Younger Dryas" to the lesser "Little Ice Age", depending on how the North Atlantic "great conveyor" is affected. Such an ice-age would produce huge political upheavals, which are also discussed in the article.

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  1. Traitorous propaganda by jmlyle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The authors are terrorists and should be immediately locked in an unnamed prison without any rights.

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  2. Re:no, dumb ass by OwlofCreamCheese · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    why? an ice age didn't kill us all when we were at a stone age level, but it somehow will this time?

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  3. Re:no, dumb ass by BerntB · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    an ice age didn't kill us all when we were at a stone age level, but it somehow will this time?
    Everything is OK if it only kill 95% of the population, because a few generations later the population size will grow back?!

    (-: I think a less than charming US English idiom is relevant here -- "dumbass"! :-)

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