ice age

Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 9:19 am

Could another ice age happen?
If so could we survive
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Trent Theriot
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:26 am

Yes

Yes

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Manuela Ribeiro Pereira
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:57 pm

Not a question of "if" but "when". Our species would survive, but the society of today might not, given that richest nations of the word are on the northern hemisphere.
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Charlie Ramsden
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:39 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation

I actually wonder if humanity could withstand NOT being in an ice age. We can definitely survive glacial periods, but I don't think we could survive very well in a world with no ice caps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png

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Sammygirl
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:00 am

It will happen, it's just when. And people will survive because we move faster than ice develops :)

But I'm baffled people build nuclear plants to say, here in Scandinavia, where ice age had 10 kilometers of ice on us just only 10000 years ago. How many ice ages we will have within next 100,000 years, when waste is still active.

On a lighter side, ice age probably just starts as a longer and more-snowy winters in the north, and then the snow doesn't melt fully in the summer. So... when it becomes down to a point when someone decides to throw their snow shovel on top of of a huge snow pile and move south, leaving their homes behind. Will the first leavers considered quitters? Will there be some old beards that will want to stay no matter how many meters of snow accumulates on their houses. :bonk: :twirl:

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Charleigh Anderson
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:28 pm

These past winter storms we had feels like another Ice Age.

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Myles
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:53 am

I thought we were technically still in an ice age.

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Jade MacSpade
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:34 am

And here in Finland, we got -nada- snow this year. Overall maybe an inch or two in the south all winter, most have melted already, when normally my area has a good feet of snow in beginning of March.

Polar cycle changing. Hope this doesn't last, since I like winter.

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Adam Baumgartner
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 12:24 pm

I don't mind snow or the cold, its the sleet and ice I hate.

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Lucky Girl
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:14 pm

I've got some really bad news.

None of you are going to survive the next Ice Age.

You'll be long dead before it occurs and even if you freeze yourself... they won't be able to thaw you out!

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Taylah Illies
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 3:21 pm

I assumed the question "Could we survive" as "Could the human race survive", I know it's not coming that fast that we'd be there to see it. :)

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Sherry Speakman
 
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Post » Wed Mar 05, 2014 4:33 am

(responding to Morrowe)- Here in the Midwestern US it has been like the coldest winter since before my grandparents lifetime (or something like that)... It was like Alaska down here, I have never experienced cold like I did this year, never. I also work outdoors so it svcked even more... We couldn't even dig with our mini excavators because it was like permafrost 2 feet down.... There was quite a bit of snow this year but between the snow storms it was a deep dry cold, very cold... Horrible.

I live in Indiana by the way.

If next winter is like this one has been... I am quitting my job... lol.

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