Hello L.D., everyone, I thought you may be interested in this: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030203-411420-1,00.html?cnn=yes
:) cheers david L.D. Best wrote:
I've seen some very interesting work in multiple disciplines that tends
to make me worry about "global warming" and how it might affect my
great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren.
Studies from non-weather people would seem to indicate that the last era
of "global warming" -- which did such a great job of feeding Mammoths with tons of all the lovely warm weather foods found in their "frozen beneath the tundra" stomachs -- came right before the last ice age.
Having a non-scientific creative [i.e. take random facts from multiple
disciplines and put them together in a way that others have yet to]
mind, I just "realized a theory of my own."
Ice Ages must be preceeding by major periods of global warming.
The earth's distance from the sun, axial tilt and rotational period have
not significantly changed since the last ice age.
The oceans of the world are what keep the earth relatively warm.
The "easiest" way to reduce ocean temperatures is to cover a larger
portion of the world's water with ice.
Sea water doesn't freeze well.
Sea water with fresh water floating on top of it [yes, that does happen
routinely ... ask the 'eskimos' about harpooning a seal only to lose it
because it sinks in the fresh water under the ice and comes to rest
"just out of reach" on top of the saline balance of the sea] can be more
easily covered with ice.
The largest source of fresh water on this planet is Antarctica.
The ice around antarctica is melting and calving HUGE icebergs -- one at
least is said to be larger than the state of Rhode Island, and that's
just this year's crop of "calves."
The more fresh water there is to freeze, the more ice will form.
It is anybody's guess [actually, if some scientists got together and
working on designing the right computer programs it could be more than
a guess] at what point global warming will have diluted the seas enough, and enough fresh water flows onto the surface of both the Arctic and peri-Antarctic oceans, where the ice will take over because there is a build-up of reflective ice which gets greater each century because of the sun's
energy being reflected back from the ice sheets rather than reaching the
oceans to maintain a relatively warm global weather pattern.
Whew!! The "puzzle solving mentality" can sneak up on a person rather
rapidly, given the opportunity and the right prod!!!
Now, if any of you know some climatologists or global "weather studiers"
who could take my theory a few steps further ... please send them my
theory. Then we can all sit back and wait to see what new thinking
develops in the scientific communities of the world. <G>
