Remember that coming Ice age thread...

[Ferrous Wheel]

where the gulf stream shuts off? well, here's the Pentagon's take on the coming ice age, in case you thot they were joking:

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,582584-1,00.html

"Though triggered by warming, such change would probably cause cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to longer, harsher winters in much of the U.S. and Europe. Worse, it would cause massive droughts, turning farmland to dust bowls and forests to ashes. Picture last fall's California wildfires as a regular thing. Or imagine similar disasters destabilizing nuclear powers such as Pakistan or Russia—it's easy to see why the Pentagon has become interested in abrupt climate change."



Bundle up, Yall.

Keith

 

[mrostov]

Climate change happens, and there is nothing we can do to speed it up or slow it down. It can happen fast. Ice cores from Greenland have shown that the last ice age implemented itself in 3 separate one year periods over a 20 year span.

One of the best papers published on climate change that I've found lately is at this link to a 780k PDF format document: ARTICLE LINK