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Climate Change Making Things Greener
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That's been one of my theories too, that we're just between ice ages. If you study the geologic records it's always warmest right before an ice age.
That's been one of my theories too, that we're just between ice ages. If you study the geologic records it's always warmest right before an ice age.
Re: Re: Ice Caps Melting? Hah!
But glacial changes in the past have taken millenia, not decades. If the climate changes too quickly, the ecosystem is screwed. Species cannot adapt quickly enough to compensate and we lose diversity.
But glacial changes in the past have taken millenia, not decades. If the climate changes too quickly, the ecosystem is screwed. Species cannot adapt quickly enough to compensate and we lose diversity.
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That's quite possibly from an albino effect: hot weather at the equator and hotter weather at in the more central latitudes means more desertification and deforestation, which leads to less absorbtion of solar energy which leads to colder weather which leads to ice caps which reflect even more of the solar energy and it runs away from there and gets nice and chilly and icy.
That's quite possibly from an albino effect: hot weather at the equator and hotter weather at in the more central latitudes means more desertification and deforestation, which leads to less absorbtion of solar energy which leads to colder weather which leads to ice caps which reflect even more of the solar energy and it runs away from there and gets nice and chilly and icy.
Re: Glacial Changes
Which is quite posibly happening. Although probably not to the extent that the last ice age saw. The diversification that we have now isn't based on large species populations living in, around and on the glaciers. I've been to Alaska quite a few times and its not anything like what you might have seen when Mammoths roamed the area.
This current change will affect things in different ways. The project that brought me to Alaska has need to be concerned about the perma frost. Current studies show a significant reduction in perma frost over the next couple decades - how this will affect the wild life is a good guess. But it will allow for ground water to seep downward, which will change the flora, so moose and caribou are going to have to change their migration in some way. And that's just one small bit of the whole ecosystem.
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Which is quite posibly happening. Although probably not to the extent that the last ice age saw. The diversification that we have now isn't based on large species populations living in, around and on the glaciers. I've been to Alaska quite a few times and its not anything like what you might have seen when Mammoths roamed the area.
This current change will affect things in different ways. The project that brought me to Alaska has need to be concerned about the perma frost. Current studies show a significant reduction in perma frost over the next couple decades - how this will affect the wild life is a good guess. But it will allow for ground water to seep downward, which will change the flora, so moose and caribou are going to have to change their migration in some way. And that's just one small bit of the whole ecosystem.
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Re: Re: Re: Ice Caps Melting? Hah!
Not necessarily so. If you read throught the thread about what I and others have said the evidence now shows that most iceages start in as little as a decade. It's a rather dramatic thing that is caused by one thing such as ocean currents causing another and it just landslides into a global freezing. There have been hundreds of extinctions on a global scale many many severely massive ones in the records of the earth. Climate changes bring on extinctions and this is a natural thing. It's the dramatic changes that actually force nature to evolve and a large portion of the species we have today didn't exist a million years ago they have evolved in that time due the massive climate changes. They will die off again and new ones will pop up to fill there places that is natures way. Yes, we have some affect on it but not in a way that will even leave a mark on everything in a few hundred million years when all humans will probably be either dead or alive in a different form.
Not necessarily so. If you read throught the thread about what I and others have said the evidence now shows that most iceages start in as little as a decade. It's a rather dramatic thing that is caused by one thing such as ocean currents causing another and it just landslides into a global freezing. There have been hundreds of extinctions on a global scale many many severely massive ones in the records of the earth. Climate changes bring on extinctions and this is a natural thing. It's the dramatic changes that actually force nature to evolve and a large portion of the species we have today didn't exist a million years ago they have evolved in that time due the massive climate changes. They will die off again and new ones will pop up to fill there places that is natures way. Yes, we have some affect on it but not in a way that will even leave a mark on everything in a few hundred million years when all humans will probably be either dead or alive in a different form.