Scientists warn Earth is gradually heading toward the next ice age
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T. A. Gardner
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Gorebal Warming wasn't working politically, so something had to replace it...
Brand new to science journalism, eh?
We've known for decades that the Earth is in an interglacial cycle, and there will be eventually another ice age thousands of years from now.
What happens 20,000 years from now will not affect our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, or great great grandchildren. They are going to be impacted by how we detrimentally affect the climate in the next 200 years.
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Nah Nature does as long as you allow for enough time.
The article titled "Scientists warn Earth is gradually heading toward the next ice age" by John Anderson is based on legitimate scientific research, but the headline can be misleading without context. While Earth's natural orbital cycles do point toward a future ice age, recent studies emphasize that human-driven climate change is likely to delay this event by thousands of years.
The Scientific Context
Recent peer-reviewed research, including a study published in the journal Science in early 2025, has clarified the relationship between Earth’s orbital patterns and glacial cycles:
- Predictable Natural Cycles: Scientists from institutions like Cardiff University and UC Santa Barbara have identified a "predictable pattern" in how small changes in Earth's orbit, tilt, and "wobble" (Milankovitch cycles) have triggered the last eight ice ages over the past million years.
- The 10,000-Year Timeline: Based strictly on these natural orbital shifts, Earth would naturally transition into a new glacial state in approximately 10,000 to 11,000 years.
- The Human "Catch": Researchers warn that this transition is very unlikely to happen on that schedule. Human emissions of carbon dioxide have already diverted the climate from its natural course. High CO2 levels could cause the planet to skip natural glacial periods for at least the next 500,000 years.
Fact-Checking the "Warning"
While the headline uses the word "warn," the scientific community's primary concern is actually the rapid warming currently occurring, which is happening roughly 10 times faster than the average rate of warming after an ice age.
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Magats do not 'science'. They do not 'math'. They do not 'read'.
So yes, all of this which is known and normal to the rest of us, is something that magats misread, think they got great gotcha's from and completely mis-state while then pretending they are right.
It’s always amazing, or should I say, sad
This is a topic thread based on one guy’s blog, some obscure nobody named “John Anderson,” and his blog is something called “even out”. The content proclaiming this new ice age is one paragraph long, three sentences, that’s it, no proof, not source, obviously just something John Anderson created and ran with hoping to reel in some sucker, he did
ICE OUT!!
Crepitus
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Sure, in somewhere between10,000 and 50,000 years or so, lol
They do expect global warming to delay it somewhat too, so might be a bit longer.
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It is that you derps read the OP and think you found something that is a gotcha and you think your comments are witty that is the most humorous.
you guys have no basic clue about science, do not read and thus have no broader view on this topic then a Fox News clip and yet, of all the people you think you can make smart quips on it which just make you stand out for your ignorance.
T. A. Gardner
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Actually, I have more of a clue about science and engineering than you do. When the so-called "climate scientists" make predictions that are far worse than guesses on what the global climate is doing than a psychic just guessing would, it doesn't speak highly of why I should be paying attention to them.
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so why did you, along with Damo, think this article was pointing at new or a change in the view with regards to next ice age?
YOu both were pretty duped by this.
Um that isn't an article.
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I must be missing something but there isn't any article.
T. A. Gardner
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And you have a massive amount of informatIon and own a supercomputer.
T. A. Gardner
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No, and I don't need either. If climate science worked, like other science does, then the predicted models would be close to actual results. Yet, after decades of modeling and what-have-you, climate scientists are close to 100% wrong--badly wrong--on outcomes and predictions. That argues they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Guessing by a psychic could do better.
When scientists hypothesized plate tectonics, within decades it was proven correct. When Einstein hypothesized his theory of relativity and that mass and energy were interchangeable, it was proven within decades. On the other hand, climate science gets it wrong and not just wrong but often badly, totally, wrong.
Bad comparison. Facts that the theories are based on are not based on probability.
T. A. Gardner
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The "facts" that climate science is based on are thinner than toilet paper. A primary claim is that CO2, a minute gas present in the atmosphere overwhelms water vapor and the other 99.05% of it. Albedo of the planet is discounted as a source.
The CFC / hole in the ozone layer thing is another climate science fail.
Right now, climate science is bad science for the most part.