Global warming, ice age - The growing threat...

[SolidSnake76]

i bet few oflipnew about this, the global warming threat could result in another ice age. i though i open this up into a small discussion.

first, we all know about the global warming thing. CFC's discharged into the atmoshpere and depleting the O3 content that makes up the ozone layer. not only that but there is a rising build up of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide(co2) and methane from the melting arctic. now with all this ice melting, it wont just raise the sea level but that will cause ocean waters that was once salty, to turn fresh. droughts will occur in downstream nations and will trigger water wars. take a good look at sudan and egypt for an example. flooding will include swallowing loiusiana, the florida pan-handle, many islands in the south pacific and the west african coast, which will sub-merge parts of largos in nigeria. and then theres the crop failure in mid-west america, brazil, parts of africa(which will generate numerous refugees) and southern aisa. and with the warm air rising, areas that were once too cold for mosqutios will breed them. the thing is, thats not the scary part about all this.

remember what i said about the sea water becoming fresh. the great conveyor belt, also known as the gulf stream, takes warm water currents up and beyond the N60 degree mark to spread it along the british isles and all across the norwegian sea. due to global warming, what if the gulf stream stopped?

well, heres the answer:

if the Great Conveyor Belt, which includes the Gulf Stream, were to stop flowing today, the result would be sudden and dramatic. Winter would set in for the eastern half of North America and all of Europe and Siberia, and never go away. Within three years, those regions would become uninhabitable and nearly two billion humans would starve, freeze to death, or have to relocate. Civilization as we know it probably couldn't withstand the impact of such a crushing blow.

the Great Conveyor Belt is only thing between comfortable summers and a permanent ice age for Europe and the eastern coast of North America. Much of this science was unknown as recently as twenty years ago. Then an international group of scientists went to Greenland and used newly developed drilling and sensing equipment..Their instruments were so sensitive that when they analyzed the ice core samples they brought up, they were able to look at individual years of snow. The results were shocking.

Prior to the last decades, it was thought that..the transition time from icy to warm was gradual, lasting dozens to hundreds of years..Looking at the ice cores, however, scientists were shocked to discover that the transitions from ice age-like weather to contemporary-type weather usually took only two or three years. Something was flipping the weather of the planet back and forth with a rapidity that was startling.

Most scientists involved in research on this topic agree that the culprit is global warming, melting the icebergs on Greenland and the Arctic icepack and thus flushing cold, fresh water down into the Greenland Sea from the north.

think about this for a quick sec pple. the stream has already hesitated a few times. global warming is gonna lead to another ice age in years from now. if we dont reduce the effect of global warming or just sit around and do nothing, this world is gonna go into an icy hell sooner than we could possibly think.