The next ice age

Now, most people don't know this, but our planet has been through a series of climate changes in the past. There have been numerous ice ages and there have been numerous warm periods of time. The term global warming was thrown around a lot for a while and now it is climate change because people are too slow to realize that a warming of a quarter of a degree in 4 years doesnt seem like a big deal. But climate change can be associated with any number of strange weather phenomenon which can be addressed at any point in time before during and after. Which is precisely what the media loves(I honestly suggest that people read Crichton's state of fear).

Aside from those random instances of the media using science to stir up support, I think we honestly need to be more concerned about an ice age. If you look at the temperature data that has been collected through ice core samples over the past thousands of years, temperature goes up until it reaches a critical peak and then shoots down. There are theories as to why this is, ranging from random to most things die because the environment is so messed up but then since most things are dead things cool down, to the theory I believe in. When it is hot, there is severe weather. If you take this summer as an example right now there are three hurricanes back to back to back in the atlantic ocean, and there was one last week that went through the gulf of mexico and came close to wrecking New Orleans again. When there are lots of storms there is lots of moisture in the air when there is moisture in the air there are clouds. A couple hundred years ago there was a well documented minor ice age, which provides us our best evidence of what happens, people claim to have not seen the sun for over a year (even if this is only a regional effect, if over two years there is not enough sun to keep vegitation alive it could seriously alter ecosystems and survivability). My theory, well it was somebody else's theory first, but the theory that I believe in is that once you hit a certain threshold there is enough latent heat to keep clouds floating up in the atmosphere, and once you lose sunlight, you lose almost all the energy at the surface of the planet and you get an ice age.

Now, as I have said before, I am not here to force any beliefs, but I got started thinking about global warming, and it led me right into a little bit of my belief about what we should really be worrying about. And my suggestion is that you do a little bit of research and make up your own mind.