{"id":552,"date":"2008-11-24T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-11-16T20:18:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T18:18:02","slug":"global-warning-we-are-actually-heading-towards-a-new-ice-age-claim-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.psyched.be\/wordpress\/science\/global-warning-we-are-actually-heading-towards-a-new-ice-age-claim-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Global warning: We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global warning: We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists<\/h4>\n

\nBy Cher Thornhill
\nLast updated at 5:06 PM on 13th November 2008\n<\/p>\n

\n It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem.
\nWe are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim.
\nBritish and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice.
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\nMost of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England could be covered in 3,000ft-thick ice fields.
\nThe expanses could reach 6,000ft from Aberdeen to Kent \u2013 towering above Ben Nevis, Britain\u2019s tallest mountain.
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\nAnd what’s more, the experts blame the global change on falling – rather than climbing – levels of greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n

Lead author Thomas Crowley from the University of Edinburgh and Canadian colleague William Hyde say that currently vilified greenhouse gases \u2013 such as carbon dioxide \u2013 could actually be the key to averting the chill. <\/p>\n

The warning, published in the authoritative journal Nature, is based on records of tiny marine fossils and the earth\u2019s shifting orbit.
\nThe Earth has seen dramatic climate fluctuations \u2013 veering between cold and warm extremes – over the past three million years, the researchers say. <\/p>\n

And changes in the Earth\u2019s orbit and slowly falling levels of carbon dioxide are the cause.<\/p>\n

The team says we are approaching a turning point, in the next 10,000 to 100,000 years, which will lead to the new ice sheets smothering much of Europe, Asia and South America. <\/p>\n

The theory, which is based on computer models, suggests ice sheets will also slash sea levels by up to 300m, so Russia and Alaska will be connected by land.<\/p>\n

The North Sea will become part of a huge glacier stretching from Holland and Scandinavia to the Russian Far East.
\nProfessor Crowley said the stark findings do not mean we should stop fighting warming. <\/p>\n

But he urged: \u2018Don\u2019t push the panic button.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018There\u2019s no excuse for saying \u201cwe\u2019ve got to keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere,\u201d\u2019 he told Reuters. <\/p>\n

\u2018Geologically it\u2019s tomorrow, but we have lots of time to argue about the appropriate level of greenhouse gases.\u2019\n<\/p>\n

\n<<Editors notE>>
\nInstead of simply stating scientists simply do not agree yet… now we just have to divided camps… Whether it’s going to get hotter or cooler, that doesn’t matter, we’ll have to deal with it. No excuse for raising our taxes, it should be an impulse for mega-corps to start using\/producing alternative energy…
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