The Millennia After Tomorrow?

frankthechicken writes "Analysis of a three-kilometer-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic, has revealed our planet has had eight ice ages during that period, punctuated by rather brief warm spells - one of which we enjoy today. And fortunately, the end of the world is not the day after tomorrow, instead it may be expected on Sunday, 17000."

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Sounds familiar

[Andy Smith]

Quote from Slashdot submission...

Analysis of a three-kilometer-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic, has revealed our planet has had eight ice ages during that period, punctuated by rather brief warm spells - one of which we enjoy today.

Quote from BBC story...

Analysis of the ice proves our planet has had eight ice ages during that period, punctuated by rather brief warm spells - one of which we enjoy today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3792209.stm

Note that the Slashdot submission didn't reference the BBC story.

Re:Natural causes for global warming

[Claire-plus-plus]

If we continue climate research and do nothing it will be too late to do anything before we really know for sure if we really are contributing to global warming with pollution. However, if we assume that warming is a fact and that it is our fault we lose little and may just save the world. The cost of doing nothing is too high to tolerate.

Incidently figures collected state that the temperature was rising steadily for 1000s of years but started rising much faster once the industrial revolution started.

Most, if not all, Climatologists now believe the evidence of global warming through pollution and human activity has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.

Actually I heard recently that the US Department of Defence now list global warming as a risk to US national security (ABC tv Australia, Landline).Landline global warming report.