Comments on: How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age

By: Andrew Routledge

Andrew Routledge — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:06:14 +0000

Don’t forget that the world’s climate warms naturally in cycles irrespective of human contribution. It only takes two or three volcanos to blow at the same time to completely dwarf all human CO2 and methane production. If anything CO2 is most likely to increase due to toxic waste poisoning the phytoplanction in the oceans. They produce 2/3 of the worlds oxygen my breaking down CO2 that is absaubed in the oceans. All the world leaders concern over CO2 emmissions was really nothing more that a diversion tactic to take emphasis from land and sea (also water in general) pollution which were always the real issue. Now that sea levels are rising two south sea nations are leaving their Islands because they are no longer inhabitable. The massive Glaciers in Greenland and Antartica are melting at a truly alarming rate. Soon the Benelux countries could be under water too as couls also be most coastal regions of the world. Good thing that Antartica and Greenland are thawing, many of us might need to settle there in the not too distant future!

By: Andrew Routledge

Andrew Routledge — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:17:55 +0000

I see the relevance of how we act with regards to greenhouse gasses more relevant to the period after the ice age hits. In the period leading up to ice ages there is always a lot of climatical turmoil. To say how much of this is due to our contribution considering the huge forces at work in nature is debatable. It may turn out to be six of one and half a dozen of the other. In my mind, what is more important is the way in which we act after the ice age hits. At the moment, from the human perspective, the world doesn’t work with much integrity. This will need to change dramatically. Again, events as the unfold may enforce this principle upon us. It’s hard to tell right now. If most of Europe and the eastern part of the us and Canada is under glaciers, we will all have to squeeze into Africa and south America. It doesn’t take a very big imagination to realize that policies will need to be very different from then on in those places. Concerning the middle East. IT will be so hot there that it too will be unfit for habitation. We are living in a period of a few thousand years since the last ice age, the great ice age that forced us to abandon living as hunter gathers and adopt a lifestyle of farmers. After the ice age we may move into a new stage in which we realize that we profit more from working intergrally rather than through every man feathering his own nest. To say more needs me to go into the spiritual realm and I don’t want to go into that right now. Thanks for the comment.

By: Andrew Routledge

Andrew Routledge — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:54:44 +0000

I agree. We need to reduce greenhouse gasses because this will bring us back into a interal mind frame and this will be to all our benefits in the long term as well as in regard to what is going on right now.

By: Andrew Routledge

Andrew Routledge — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:50:17 +0000

The next ice age will come no matter what we do. Global warming may increase the severity of the events leading up to it or may even bring the ice age on by a few decades but I stress, whatever we do, we don’t have the technology to stop nature.