Earth is 'between Ice Ages at the moment'

[charrison]

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Paris - Earth and its companion planet, Mars, are both enjoying a period of warm climate between their respective Ice Ages, according to a study published on Thursday in Nature, the British science weekly.

Pictures sent back by United States orbiters have shown that Mars has "dusty, water-ice-rich mantling deposits" in layers that are metres thick, it says.

"These deposits were formed during a geologically recent Ice Age that occurred from about 2,1 million to 400 000 years ago," it suggests. "Mars is at present in an 'inter-glacial' period."

Earth, too, is considered to be between two Ice Ages - the last one ended some 11 000 years ago, helping the rise of Homo sapiens as a species - but for quite different reasons, according to the study.

Mars is at present in an 'inter-glacial' period
The finger of suspicion in Earth's regular bouts of glaciation points to slight variations in the planet's orbit around the sun and a minor "wobble" in its rotation around its axis.

 

[SuperTool]

WHy, is "Ice Age 2" coming out soon?

 

[Witling]

Charrison has posted all the text that pertains to the article's observations on earth being "between ice ages. The article doesn't go into any depth. As far as I know, there are only four known ice ages in the earth's history. That's not great evidence for implying that there will be other ice ages in the future. This Link is to another Anandtech thread on global warming.

 

[Moonbeam]

It snow big deal.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Whitling
Charrison has posted all the text that pertains to the article's observations on earth being "between ice ages. The article doesn't go into any depth. As far as I know, there are only four known ice ages in the earth's history. That's not great evidence for implying that there will be other ice ages in the future. This Link is to another Anandtech thread on global warming.

It was not long ago that the global community was worried about global cooling.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Whitling
Charrison has posted all the text that pertains to the article's observations on earth being "between ice ages. The article doesn't go into any depth. As far as I know, there are only four known ice ages in the earth's history. That's not great evidence for implying that there will be other ice ages in the future. This Link is to another Anandtech thread on global warming.

It was not long ago that the global community was worried about global cooling.

I am not sure as to the point of all of this. The fact that we are in an interglacial period has long been assumed. The continents are also moving, and penguins and polar bears only live together in a zoo.

 

[Ldir]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
It snow big deal.

Chill.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Whitling
Charrison has posted all the text that pertains to the article's observations on earth being "between ice ages. The article doesn't go into any depth. As far as I know, there are only four known ice ages in the earth's history. That's not great evidence for implying that there will be other ice ages in the future. This Link is to another Anandtech thread on global warming.

It was not long ago that the global community was worried about global cooling.

I am not sure as to the point of all of this. The fact that we are in an interglacial period has long been assumed. The continents are also moving, and penguins and polar bears only live together in a zoo.

The point is there is alot of ideas on what is causing the warming we are experiencing right now(and many of them are not related to mans footprint on the earth).

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Whitling
Charrison has posted all the text that pertains to the article's observations on earth being "between ice ages. The article doesn't go into any depth. As far as I know, there are only four known ice ages in the earth's history. That's not great evidence for implying that there will be other ice ages in the future. This Link is to another Anandtech thread on global warming.

It was not long ago that the global community was worried about global cooling.

I am not sure as to the point of all of this. The fact that we are in an interglacial period has long been assumed. The continents are also moving, and penguins and polar bears only live together in a zoo.

The point is there is alot of ideas on what is causing the warming we are experiencing right now(and many of them are not related to mans footprint on the earth).

Of course there are a lot of ideas about this, but they are not mutually exclusive.

Let's take erosion.

Could be due to a major periodic flood happening every thousand years. Could be arid conditions causing vegetation to die, and wind just be blowing the top soil away. Perhaps an insect plague striking every few thousand years?

Could also be that it is poor agricultural practices too. Consider the Dust Bowl.


Now, how much is warming due to human activity? I am not sure. Is any of it due to being in an interglacial period? Well, no. This is a long period cyclical event, and unrelated to what we are seeing.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Whitling
Charrison has posted all the text that pertains to the article's observations on earth being "between ice ages. The article doesn't go into any depth. As far as I know, there are only four known ice ages in the earth's history. That's not great evidence for implying that there will be other ice ages in the future. This Link is to another Anandtech thread on global warming.

It was not long ago that the global community was worried about global cooling.

I am not sure as to the point of all of this. The fact that we are in an interglacial period has long been assumed. The continents are also moving, and penguins and polar bears only live together in a zoo.

The point is there is alot of ideas on what is causing the warming we are experiencing right now(and many of them are not related to mans footprint on the earth).

Of course there are a lot of ideas about this, but they are not mutually exclusive.

Let's take erosion.

Could be due to a major periodic flood happening every thousand years. Could be arid conditions causing vegetation to die, and wind just be blowing the top soil away. Perhaps an insect plague striking every few thousand years?

Could also be that it is poor agricultural practices too. Consider the Dust Bowl.


Now, how much is warming due to human activity? I am not sure. Is any of it due to being in an interglacial period? Well, no. This is a long period cyclical event, and unrelated to what we are seeing.

Dont ya think an interglacerial event would indicate a warmer global tempature.

 

[Spencer278]

wow good thing some one did a study to determine that right now isn't an ice age and if there have been ice ages before there will be one again therefor we most be between ice ages. I wonder how large of a grant, or gift from oil companys it took to figure out this.

That is like saying your car is between oil changes so there is no need to worry that your leaking oil because you will have lots of oil later.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Spencer278
wow good thing some one did a study to determine that right now isn't an ice age and if there have been ice ages before there will be one again therefor we most be between ice ages. I wonder how large of a grant, or gift from oil companys it took to figure out this.

That is like saying your car is between oil changes so there is no need to worry that your leaking oil because you will have lots of oil later.

Yes no need to take into account for what might be cyclical climate features.

 

[DealMonkey]

Is this yet another thread about how man has no impact on the global climate?

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Is this yet another thread about how man has no impact on the global climate?

Close... It's a YACTAHMHNEOTGC.


(Yet Another Charrison Thread About How Man Has No Effect On The Global Climate)

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Insane3D

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Is this yet another thread about how man has no impact on the global climate?

Close... It's a YACTAHMHNEOTGC.


(Yet Another Charrison Thread About How Man Has No Effect On The Global Climate)

Where have i said man has no effect on global climate?

 

[Insane3D]

= joke.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Is this yet another thread about how man has no impact on the global climate?

Nope.

 

[glugglug]

For those that truly believe that man has no effect on the environment/atmospheric conditions:

Darwin award nominee suffocates from his own flatulence