Sentences with phrase «of a new ice age»

After a few years the warnings of a new ice age (which only a minority of scientists had thought at all plausible) were dropped, and attention concentrated on global warming.

What if we are on the brink of a new Ice Age?

-LSB-...] The prognosis on the emergence of a new Ice Age has little uncertainty as to their dates.

Hadn't experts, as recently as the 1970s, warned of a new ice age?

1974 Serious droughts since 1972 increase concern about climate, with cooling from aerosols suspected to be as likely as warming; scientists doubt all theories as journalists talk of a new ice age.

But in the journal Science on Thursday, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, surveys the current research and concludes «it is safe to say that global warming will not lead to the onset of a new ice age».

And I'd rather deal with the problem of farming in a warmer climate than farming under attack by Martian death rays — which is as relevent as the possibility of a new ice age for the next 150 + years.

If we mix these together in a single mean and give it a wide (2 sigma) range, naturally everything this side of a new ice age will somehow fall into the modelled range.

In the late 1960s and early»70s, climatologists envisioned the start of a new ice age because it was becoming clear that a cycle of planetary cooling was detected in the post-1940s record.

After dropping a couple f - bombs in the radio segments, Fozzie lets Kevin give a review of the new Ice Age movie.

(Many of the hits you get are from PR sites, which are really emphasizing the notion of a new ice age this week, curiously)

The Earth might have been in the midst of a new ice age, Europe might have been too cold to support industry, and things may not have gotten going at all.

«That while the weather may be just a little colder in the immediate years to come, the full extent of the new ice age won't be reached for 10,000 years.

But there is a lag of CO2 after temperature of some 600 years during deglaciations, and several thousands of years during the onset of new ice ages.

One author, speculating about the coming of a new ice age, pointed to «evidence of (at least) five rapid hemispheric coolings of about 5 °C... each event spread over not more than about a century,» Flohn (1974), quote p. 385; one line of evidence was carbon - 14 studies of tree stumps in glacial deposits: Denton and Karlén (1973).

Jonathan Gregory, a climatologist at the University of Reading, UK, says global warming could start runaway melting on Greenland within 50 years, and it will «probably be irreversible this side of a new ice age».

January's answer to Groundhog Day is Anthony Watts» annual attempt to equate the first cold weather anomaly of the new year with the onset of a new Ice Age.

Using a variety of methods, the authors conclude that the onset of a new ice age would likely begin about 1,500 years from now, if the concentration of carbon dioxide was back below the levels produced since the Industrial Revolution.

But there is a lag of CO2 after temperature of some 600 years during deglaciations, and several thousands of years during the onset of new ice ages.

There was concern among some policy makers that the decades of cooling from the mid-1940s through the mid 1970's represented the onset of a new ice age.