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Old January 12th 09, 05:04 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age

On 12 Jan, 15:31, "Vipera berus" wrote:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-1/

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a
large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate
science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term
climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene
period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return
to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.


To be honest, this is pretty well exactly what we teach at A level
Geography & Geology, putting AGW into the context of climate change
over millions of years.

However, it must be remembered that the human life cycle is just
decades long, and so those alive today are *only* concerned with the
next century at the most, so the impact of GW (however caused) *is*
still an issue to them, their children and grandchildren.Joe public
isn't interested in a thousand years time let alone 10,000 years!

It's a pity we won't be around, either as individuals, or as a
species, to witness the next ice advance in Europe.

Steve J