Global Warming

[{Dakota}]

What are the chances of a new ice age happening as per the film "The Day After Tomorrow"? Did the producrer / director make this more dramatic for film effect or was it relatively accurate? If it can happen, when is it likely to?

[qapmoc]

Hi Dakota, haven't you been watching the news lately (too much AB) its already started for you in the UK, the gulf stream has reduced 20% in the last 10 years and it is moving more to the south and now many scientists are predicting that the slow-down will continue to accelerate. There is much talk about this and how it might lead to a mini ice age for the UK and northern Europe etc.... the filum showed it happening in a few days but the predictions are that it will be much slower than that, a few decades at least, try reading this for info on the situation today. The problem is that a few decades is really a very short time scale if things like agriculture, building standards, etc...etc.... has to adapt to the change.

[nedflanders]

Yay, I am going to start a sledge manufacturing business, make millions and move to Barbados!

[WaldoMcFroog]

Thought you chose not to believe in this kind of thing, Ned?

[alegeegee]

what Ice age?

why does all and sundry accept that there was an ice age in the 1st instance?

all conjecture!

[{Dakota}]

algeegee - Do you have evidence to support and contradict other scientists that there was no ice age?

[alegeegee]

Dakota - lets turn this back to yourself - what real- not theory or conjecture - real evidence do you think there is that the earth experience an "ice-age" ?