Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age

[ScienceRocks]

Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age

Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Humanity has become a geological force that is able to suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a study now published in the renowned scientific journal Nature shows. Cracking the code of glacial inception, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found the relation of insolation and CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to be the key criterion to explain the last eight glacial cycles in Earth history. At the same time their results illustrate that even moderate human interference with the planet's natural carbon balance might postpone the next glacial inception by 100.000 years.
"Even without man-made climate change we would expect the beginning of a new ice age no earlier than in 50.000 years from now - which makes the Holocene as the present geological epoch an unusually long period in between ice ages," explains lead author Andrey Ganopolski. "However, our study also shows that relatively moderate additional anthropogenic CO2-emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are already sufficient to postpone the next ice age for another 50.000 years. The bottom line is that we are basically skipping a whole glacial cycle, which is unprecedented. It is mind-boggling that humankind is able to interfere with a mechanism that shaped the world as we know it."

cool, we humans are quite powerful on the climate of our planet!

 

[gipper]

If only big gov would spend more on infrastructure... Oh what wonderful world it would be.

 

[Crick]

What infrastructure would you like them to spend your money on? Moving 500 million people away from the coasts? Levies stretching the lengths of the entire world's coastlines? Clearing and planting a billion acres of wilderness? Continental-scale aqueducts and desalination facilities to bring water to the billions that will be short of it?

 

[gipper]

My post was aimed at the OP and entirely tongue in cheek.

I suspect his answer would be to eliminate all fossil fuels and take us back to the stone age.

 

[Crick]

We are eliminating fossil fuels, as quickly as we can oxidize them.

 

[Old Rocks]

My post was aimed at the OP and entirely tongue in cheek.

I suspect his answer would be to eliminate all fossil fuels and take us back to the stone age.

Since Mathew is a primary contributor in the Science and Technology thread, I suspect that you are just a mindless flap yapper with zero interest or knowledge of science.

By adding significant percentages of GHGs to our atmosphere, we are conducting an experiment on a planetary scale. One which we cannot stop or reverse.

 

[gipper]

My post was aimed at the OP and entirely tongue in cheek.

I suspect his answer would be to eliminate all fossil fuels and take us back to the stone age.

Since Mathew is a primary contributor in the Science and Technology thread, I suspect that you are just a mindless flap yapper with zero interest or knowledge of science.

By adding significant percentages of GHGs to our atmosphere, we are conducting an experiment on a planetary scale. One which we cannot stop or reverse.

The sky is falling...ooooooohhhhhhhh nnnnnoooooo!!!!!!

 

[gipper]

My post was aimed at the OP and entirely tongue in cheek.

I suspect his answer would be to eliminate all fossil fuels and take us back to the stone age.

Since Mathew is a primary contributor in the Science and Technology thread, I suspect that you are just a mindless flap yapper with zero interest or knowledge of science.

By adding significant percentages of GHGs to our atmosphere, we are conducting an experiment on a planetary scale. One which we cannot stop or reverse.

Damn its cold outside!!!

 

[IanC]

We are eliminating fossil fuels, as quickly as we can oxidize them.

That's pretty witty. Therefore I must assume that you read it elsewhere first.

 

[Crick]

Good repartee. Did your mom give you that one?