Might Global Warming Bring On Another New Ice Age
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by: VictorKrumm. | Total views: 23 | Word Count: 491
Sure, there are some narrow-minded ideologues and political charlatans who preach about the "Global Warming Hoax."
Facts just don't get in their way. They never have and they never will for these sort of folks.
In another century, Galileo, the father of modern science, was tried and convicted by the Catholic Inquisition for his appalling blasphemy that the earth wasn't at the center of the universe.
But, it was the leadership of the Catholic Church that was delusional, not the scientist.
Today, it's small-minded ideologues who claim, falsely, that there's a global warming controversy when, indeed, there isn't any such thing.
However, instead of trying to try to reason with with the close-minded ideologues, I wonder: "Will global warming bring on another Ice Age?"
At first, it sounds paradoxical until you consider 2 things: Greenland and the Gulf Stream.
It is the Atlantic Gulf Stream that gives countries from Britain to Scandinavia similar temperatures and climate to the continental U.S, instead of northern Siberia and Alaska which are at the same latitude.
Ocean currents carry warm tropical sea water from the Tropics up to the North Atlantic to a bit south of Greenland. As the warmer water evaporates in the frigid conditions, its salt remains behind and the ensuing denser water settles to the bottom forming an undersea river forty times greater than all of the other freshwater rivers and streams of the world put together .
At Greenland, this huge, highly saline river in the Atlantic Ocean , which can sometimes be seen by astronauts, reverses course and flows south. As it does so , it pushes warmer, lighter water to the surface, leading to the moderate temperatures off Europe's coast.
Which brings me back to Greenland.
Today, its ice sheets, just about two miles deep, are melting so rapidly that some coastal areas of this subcontinent have been rising an inch a year over the past two decades as the immense weight of the ice is lost. As its glaciers melt, the fresh water goes into the North Atlantic, increasingly diluting the ocean's salinity and, at some unknown but critical threshold, the Great Conveyor Belt, the Gulf Stream, will shut down, resulting in a catastrophic (think a few years, not decades years) climate shift to another Ice Age that will potentially last, at a minimum, 700 years---but perhaps many thousands of years.
The Ice Age will put the eastern half of the United States and maritime Canada and all of Europe and Siberia into year-round winter, making those regions uninhabitable. Two billion people and our civilization will possibly perish.
But , it's best not to dwell on things we don't want to think about.
Better to simply do nothing and repeat, repeatedly , that global warming is a hoax.
Just like the Church's decision to deny that the earth was not the centre of the universe, just a lie by the blasphemer Galileo.
Just another hoax.
Too bad the planet has to be put at such needless peril solely to mollify fools and political circus barkers.
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It could be the most vital event in mankind's history even if there's a pretend global warming controversy. It's the Big Lie they commit and have the gall to call the"global warming hoax".
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