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- ebcreasoner, on 11/16/2009, -1/+83Ah... The Six Months After Tomorrow.
- LawIsGone, on 11/16/2009, -3/+65Does this mean we can expect another Ice Age movie to arrive in theatres by next summer? The last one was okay but really the franchise is getting old.
- guttersniper, on 11/16/2009, -1/+54Thank god we've spent the past couple centuries pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to prevent this. What amazing foresight.
- beatnikwriter, on 11/16/2009, -2/+46Daily Mail.
- rawm, on 11/16/2009, -2/+32The article was written by a guy who
Works for the Daily Mail when
The Daily Mail is
owned by Sony Pictures who
financed the new 2012 movie who
want you to all freak out and watch their film. - kalvinb, on 11/16/2009, -2/+25Most places are sunny and warm in June and then 6 months later are iced over.
I think the biggest stumbling block to science right now is figuring out just how quickly the world can change. They've been operating with the mindset of "millions of years" and so when things like this pop up it's completely unexpected. - terminal157, on 11/16/2009, -0/+21Now this is a conspiracy theory I can get behind.
- Bactame, on 11/16/2009, -1/+18Sounds a little suspicious somehow. The Ice age referred to began 13,000 years ago? Lake Agassaiz(?) on Hudson Bay emptied into Hudson Bay because it was overfull with melted ice. So melted ice caused the cooling. If we are approaching a similar situation with melting ice, we should be careful about locations where melting ice pools up.
- theodenking, on 11/16/2009, -0/+17You're right, the study was actually referring to the Younger Dryas event which was more of a "cold spell" within the current interglacial than an Ice Age (like the more famous "Little Ice Age" which lasted from the 16th to 19th century). You can always count on the Daily Mail to sensationalise even the most minor details.
Here's the original article in New Scientist if anybody is interested:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427344.800 ... - Gundersen, on 11/16/2009, -5/+21I think he might be referring to winter, which also takes about 6 months to arrive from a warm nice summer day.
- captininsanity, on 11/16/2009, -2/+16It's because of all of that liberal environmental regulation robbing the world of its greenhouse gasses. Only the invisible hand of the free market can produce the best most viable environment. /s
- ubuntu710, on 11/16/2009, -1/+14we are fvcked
- DracoFlameus, on 11/16/2009, -0/+13Let me guess... you are not from Europe, eh?
- GregFD3S, on 11/16/2009, -2/+14I broke the dam.
- logir, on 11/16/2009, -1/+12You think you're *****? I'm in Iceland and if I had a bit more time I'd explain to you about being *****.
- the2989, on 11/16/2009, -10/+21Fox News will blame it on the Liberals.
- ZincSaucier, on 11/16/2009, -0/+10has science figured out yet how that lizard runs on water? that crazy lizard
- ZincSaucier, on 11/16/2009, -0/+10phew
- BasalCellBossk, on 11/16/2009, -1/+8Lew Rockwell has no credibility. Neither do studies he links to, due to obvious self-serving motivations.
- logir, on 11/16/2009, -0/+6I've not read the New Scientist article yet, so this may be a different effect. But. If a lot of fresh water flows into the North Atlantic, then this affects the relative density of the war water brought up by the Gulf Stream and the cold water already in the North Atlantic and could disrupt the inflow of hot water. So it has little to do with cold water flowing into the sea, and everything to do with fresh water.
- zombird, on 11/16/2009, -1/+6Weather is a marxist plot.
- candorny, on 11/16/2009, -1/+6I don't know which is sadder. That you fell for a long since refuted internet urban legend or that someone else dugg you up.
- falconear, on 11/16/2009, -0/+5Yes. Remember how they fixed it, so none of that came to pass? Admittedly, it was overblown, but there would have been serious ***** issues if the bug had not been repaired.
Same deal with the hole in the Ozone layer...we stopped using massive CFCs, and the hole stopped growing. - InactiveUser, on 11/16/2009, -1/+6Why didn't the buildings fail with 100 feet of water? Oh right its a movie..
- Shipyaad, on 11/16/2009, -0/+5Wrong.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/antarcticwave ... - Raumschiff, on 11/16/2009, -1/+5Dugg for sympathy.
- okcomputer01, on 11/16/2009, -0/+4The Gulf stream makes a significant difference. Lisbon has almost the same latitude as NY but it doesn't snow, nor do we have such low temperatures, it's 9am and I'm wearing a t-shirt.
- logir, on 11/16/2009, -0/+4No, Science has been busy reading Gaia's diary. She's going to be pissed when she finds out, but it's all worth it for the make-up sex.
- esck21, on 11/16/2009, -1/+5Win.
- d03boy, on 11/16/2009, -2/+6I'll wait another 6 months to believe this to see if there is a new study that says the exact opposite since nobody can seem to agree.
- CaughtThinking, on 11/16/2009, -0/+4I can buy a condo in Florida for an easy 40k these days. I'm not worried.
- AwakeAmerican, on 11/16/2009, -2/+5I wonder how man caused that one?
- michirican123, on 11/16/2009, -2/+5If they air it.
- themastersb, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3Do I smell a sequel?
- mpsnerdley, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3You better get it now.
- GrammerPants, on 11/16/2009, -1/+4Yes.
See I can bring nothing to the conversation as well. - whipnet, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3This ice age started on June 27th, 11046 BC at 11:57am right?
All past studies have been done by idiots.
* - digghasnoethics, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3The key part is less why the thermohaline circulation stopped, more the speed with which that plunged everyone into an ice age. To do that there have to be some serious feedback loops in operation such that the tipping point had a runaway effect.
So if you hit the same tipping point, you might see the same feedback effects.
Most climate change predictions are on the basis of conservative, proportional change. Step changes bought about by feedback would be much worse. - DerangedPenguin, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3As a penguin I was all excited about this news then realized it was either from the Daily News or Huffington Post.
- EndouOuto, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3All those fires used to cook Dinoburgers.
- Jascol, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3That's a movie I'd pay to see. "Chuck Norris vs. The Middle East"
- r3bol, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2The fact that the evidence is still not yet conclusive is even more interesting.
- candorny, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3Lots of evidence that that is not what you think it is in terms of how it happened. And itis not the food that they were "chewing" it is food in their stomachs.
Reality is not a Roland Emmerich movie. - rocknog, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2Seems pretty reasonable to me - as long as life has existed on this planet, it has had a pronounced impact on it - hell, the very makeup of our atmosphere is a direct result of life.
- cheezintern, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2I saw that movie too. Pretty typical but fun to watch none-the-less.
- Jascol, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2I broke the dam.
- spworm, on 11/16/2009, -1/+3It's the fault of the Weather Underground. One of whose members was William Ayers, who funded Obama!!!!
Obama is a communist Mr. Freeze! - falconear, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2I don't think that's the case, but that's still pretty funny. :)
- spworm, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2For shame. Next thing you'll say that people sometimes elect the wrong people!
- v4vishal, on 11/16/2009, -0/+2And Hannity will show the clips from an event 6 months back saying that ice age is the hoax and will blame it on Obama.
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