Question:
When is the next Ice age due?!?
anonymous
2009-11-15 10:51:18 UTC
i heard the last ice age was about 13,000 years back, so i was wondering, when is the next ice age...Humans weren't properly civilized back then i suppose, we were cavemen...if i am right? I actually don't know though if we actually did exist 13,000 years back! Now i wonder, if somehow we see the next Ice age...in our life time...what's it gonna be like?! Can you imagine...21st century...with all the tech like ipods, HD tv, hybrid cars, powerful computers, obile phones and all that...how would an ice age change our lives?! Can you even imagine? cities like, London, New York, Tokyo, Dhaka, Sydney...will be ice covered...we most probably will ice skate on Thames! Wow cant even imagine!
Six answers:
ironys_secret_weapon
2009-11-15 11:26:32 UTC
First off, the arrival of an ice age doesn't happen on schedule--it's like the first snow, it varies. I would say probably sooner than later. People studying the antarctic ice have noticed that an ice age occurs almost immediately after a period of global warming. The higher the amounts of carbon dioxide in the air, the faster the warming, the colder and longer the ice age tends to be.



Yes, 13,000 years ago (and another 100,000+ years before that) we were cave people, hunting mammoths and whatever else. So ice ages are nothing new to our species, we are very smart that is how we have been able to make it this far.



Agriculture is only about 10,000 years old, we have been able to grow crops only during this warm period. Without the crops, we will have a hard time feeding the amount of people we have currently on this planet. We may have to be cave people again.



The good news is with our technology we will see this coming and if we are wise, we will be able to prepare for this. If the ice age is as bad as "snowball earth" --millions of years ago, when the ENTIRE PLANET was deep in ice, we will have to live in fully contained environments like we would on Mars or the Moon (except we could still breathe the air of course) as going outside for even a few minutes could result in death.



I doubt we'll see it our lifetime, but we may if we trip some feedback loop on our planet with our mindless dumping of greenhouse gases in our skies. When it comes it could be a drastic change, we could find ourselves in a full-blown ice age within a decade or so. Every seen the movie "The Day After Tomorrow"? Great film, a little more extreme than what we would expect but it is a disaster film, nevertheless, I highly recommend it.
anonymous
2016-12-03 11:25:24 UTC
we ought to have a minor ice age interior the subsequent 500 years. possibilities of a small asteroid ( meteor real) inflicting substantial cloud coverage is fairly achieveable. we ought to make certain ice sheets as far down as Canada. this might final purely some an prolonged time. sunlight interest ought to alter additionally inflicting a right now chilly snap lasting 50 years or longer. a important ice age must be one thousand's of years away.
anonymous
2009-11-16 02:13:40 UTC
Why would you ask this? It doesn't make any sense. According to people who believe they can see the past when there's not even records to go that back, the ice age is done and over with billions of years ago. So why do you want a new one.



Never and there is never going to be cave men or dinosaurs ever again.



We're headed towards global warming. Now are you gonna ask when is the next fire age? Never because there was never one to begin with.
Stephen
2009-11-16 12:55:55 UTC
When the next major volcano erupts, we will enter the next major ice age.
princy
2009-11-15 11:14:01 UTC
i think it will be soonafter a couple of decades.becoz of the climate change.and the places u refered above'll look like mini greenland.i think its very hard 2 survive in that low temprature.
A.V.R.
2009-11-16 00:45:34 UTC
When the heat of the AGW debate abates.


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