Might Global Warming Bring On Another New Ice Age

Posted under environment by Victor Krumm

Sure, there are some narrow-minded ideologues and political charlatans who preach about the “Global Warming Hoax.”

Facts simply don’t get in their way. They never have and they never will for these sort of folk.

In another century, Galileo, the father of modern science, was tried and convicted by the Catholic Inquisition for his appalling blasphemy that the earth wasn’t at the center of the universe.

Yet, it was the Church of Rome that was delusional, not the scientist.

Today, it’s small-minded ideologues who claim, falsely, that there’s a global warming controversy when, indeed, there isn’t any such thing.

However, rather than argue with the delusional, I wonder: “Will global warming bring on another Ice Age?”

At first, it sounds paradoxical until you consider 2 things: Greenland and the Gulf Stream.

It is the Atlantic Gulf Stream that gives states from Britain to Scandinavia similar temperatures and climate to the continental U.S, instead of northern Siberia and Alaska which are at the same latitude.

Ocean currents carry warm tropical sea water from the Tropics up to the North Atlantic to a bit south of Greenland. As the warmer water evaporates in the frigid conditions, its salt remains behind and the ensuing denser water settles to the bottom forming an undersea river forty times greater than all of the other freshwater rivers and streams of the world put together .

At Greenland, this huge, highly saline river in the Atlantic Ocean , which can sometimes be seen by astronauts, reverses course and flows south. As it does so , it pushes warmer, lighter water to the surface, leading to the moderate temperatures off Europe’s coast.

Which brings me back to Greenland.

Today, its ice sheets, virtually 2 miles deep, are melting so fast that some coastal areas of this subcontinent have been uplifting an inch a year since the mid-90s as the immense weight of the ice is lost. As they melt, the water goes into the North Atlantic, increasingly reducing the ocean’s salinity and, at some critical threshold, the Great Conveyor Belt, the Gulf Stream, will shut down, leading to a sudden (think 2 or 3 years) climate shift to another Ice Age that may last, at a minimum, 700 years—but maybe thousands of years.

The Ice Age will put the eastern half of Canada and the U.S. and all of Europe and Siberia into year-round winter, making those regions uninhabitable. Two billion people and our civilization will likely perish.

But , it’s best not to dwell on things we don’t want to think about.

Better to simply do nothing and repeat, again and again , that global warming is a hoax.

Just like the Church’s decision to deny that that the earth wasn’t the center of the universe, just a controversy perpetrated by the blasphemer Galileo.

Just another hoax.

Too bad the planet has to be put at such needless peril solely to mollify fools and political hucksters.

It may be the most important event in mankind’s history even though there is a fake global warming controversy. It is the hoax they perpetrate and have the gall to call the”global warming hoax“.