Sentences with phrase «worrying about an ice age»

If he's worried about ice ages, perhaps he should ponder the selfishness of squandering what could have been a useful geoengineering resource to future generations faced with an imminent glaciation; carefully burning fossil fuels to enhance the greenhouse effect just enough to maintain temperatures in the face of declining northern - hemisphere insolation due to the Milankovich cycles may well be the most cost - effective method for them to do so, if those resources are still around at the time.

We need to focus on solving the climate crisis unfolding today, rather than worrying about an ice age thousands of years from now.

Not exact matches

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

«[The next ice age is] not worth worrying about compared to immediate concerns about damaging human - caused climate change expected over the coming decades if no action is taken to mitigate this likelihood.»

I thought I was going to meet her to placate her, but really she was more worried about me — how I was doing with the ice - skating, how I was doing with the fame at a young age.»

Presumably you would be just as worried about a naturally occuring plunge into ice age as an anthropogenic rapid warming.

It is true that old fears of a new ice age did not originate with climate scientists [edit — no nonsense please] and I confess to being someone who worried about such things at that time.

Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.

Between global warming being exagerated (a la Schneider) and its effects actually being a net benefit through increased production of primary producers in the food chain, the chance that the earth is going to cool (Little Ice Age, end of Holocene Interglacial, Tambora II) I think it's absolutely nuts to worry about it at all.

I am desperately worried about maximizing food production and avoiding an ice age.

Even back in the 70s, when there was some fear of eventual cooling bc the earth had been slowly cooling overall (as CO2 has slowly been reducing and going into the ground, until we suddenly reversed milllions and millions and millions of years in the process in an instant) and we are in an ice age and inter glacial period, papers predicting AGW outnumbered those worried about or predicting longer term cooling many times over.

Getting everyone worried about warming on a planet hard - wired for catastrophic cooling in the middle of a fucking ice age?

Two cavemen wearing furs worrying about it being the warmest ice age on record =)

By far the possibility I would worry about, if I were the worrying sort, would be the return to an ice age — since interglacials, over the past half million years or so, have tended to last only 10,000 years or so.

1974: Scientists Worried About The Earth Entering An Ice Age - Damning the Bering Strait Seen As Solution

It's also «possible» (with» low confidence») that we enter a new Little Ice Age, but I'm not going to worry about it.

The current interglacial period is getting long in tooth so again by any sane measure we should be worried about an impending ice age and if there is any merit whatsoever in anthropogenic global warming we should be glad for it and try to get as much of it as we can in the hope that it might delay the inevitable return of glaciers a mile thick covering everything north of Washington, D.C.