[Chaparral]

If we do have a return of the glaciers, Everything in Europe north of the Alps could be in for hard times. The Mediterranean climate zones, such as Southern California as well as the coast of North Africa, the holy land and southern Europe might become cooler and wetter with pine forest replacing the matorral, chaparro and chaparral vegetation.

Fossil pollen studies indicate the Los Angeles Basin was covered with pine and oak forest during the last ice age. It'd be a damn sight better than the concrete and asphalt that covers the place now

The Amazon basin was supposedly drier and more seasonal with the true lowland rainforest restricted to isolated refugia.

The Middle East and the Sahara were supposedly wetter so we might see the desert give way to grassland or savanna.

Of course, not all glaciations were of equal severity. Sometimes the 2km thick ice sheets came far south, other times they supposedly stayed a little further north. Mining those tar sands in Alberta would be a Beeeeyotch if the glaciers showed up to stay one winter

[Ludi]

Kinda difficult for pines and oaks to root in the concrete of the Los Angeles basin...

[holmes]

I have always said a quick short ice age has a high probability of occuring. Put enough byproducts into the atmosphere and things will change. A short one could take care of of the bloat in one season.

[oowolf]

I just finished reading this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books
Climate Crash/John Cox A succinct compilation of latest research on sudden onset ice ages.

[lotrfan55345]

=D

[lowem]

Oh no, I have to drag out that line again!

Have we "reached a critical desalinization point"?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'I') just finished reading this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books
Climate Crash/John Cox A succinct compilation of latest research on sudden onset ice ages.

[frankthetank]

I've read a few of those books about ice ages (2MILE TIME MACHINE--excellent).

Its not that i disagree with the GW crowd..i agree that the planet is warming, i just think that it can only go so far before it FLIPS back the other extreme.

We once had it hit 90F and then less then 7days later it snowed! THis is @ under 1000ft elevation in the midwest. Have that happen during the growing season here in the midwest...ouch! Say bye bye soybeans/corn.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'K')inda difficult for pines and oaks to root in the concrete of the Los Angeles basin...

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chaparral', ' ')Our artificial landscapes would cease to be recognizable within a century.

[oowolf]

Just got 'Dawn of Art; The Chauvet Cave'. The oldest known paintings in the world. Cro-Magnon cave art from 30.000+ years ago which shows that even during the last ice age art was an essential element of human life. These were REAL humans, not brainwashed, consumeroid-zombie, petroluem-sucking parasites.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chaparral', ' ')Our artificial landscapes would cease to be recognizable within a century.