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Surely the Little Ice Age just refers to a period of cooler weather i.e colder summers and winters, such as the Maunder Minimum or Younger Dryas, as opposed to a glacial period.. I doubt we'll be seeing New York under an ice sheet any time soon.
I'm no climatologist but where I live the winters have been very mild and the summers very hot,in fact we have been in a severe drought for several years,so bring your little ice age on it beats what I live thru now!
I suspect money is a big factor. Climate science wouldn't be half as big as it is now if there weren't a supposed climate crisis coming. Unfortunately, it's all about the almighty dollar in the world, and the field of science is no exception.
2nd Largest Lake in Minnesota breaks record for longest streak of Ice.
How it starts?
An unusually cold spring has kept several Minnesota lakes blanketed with ice.
An image taken by NASA's Terra satellite on May 12 reveals the presence of ice on Mille Lacs, the state's second-largest lake. The lakes were still iced over on May 16, breaking 2012's record for the latest date ice was seen on the lakes — May 15, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. The median date for Mille Lacs to thaw is April 25.
Another nearby lake, Osakis Lake, came close to breaking records, which cover data going back 144 years. The lake shed its ice on May 13, just a day earlier than the record set in 1950, the Earth Observatory said.
I think many of you are confused by the word warming.
An overall warming climate results in more chaotic weather patterns -- which could mean more unseasonable snow and cold in some areas, less in others.
Global weirding is a more accurate term.
Naturally, we should be a in a cooling cycle now. All the evidence - not weather in one city here or another region there - reveals an overall warming underway.
As I'm sure you saw on the news, we also have more average CO2 in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 3 million years.
As I'm sure you saw on the news, we also have more average CO2 in the atmosphere than at any time in the past 3 million years.
And at the same time scientists are saying that the sun's solar activity is decreasing so this could cancel out the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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An overall warming climate results in more chaotic weather patterns -- which could mean more unseasonable snow and cold in some areas, less in others.
Bit funny that statement you're right in a way but an overall warming climate would ultimately mean a trend to a warmer climate than currently.
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I think many of you are confused by the word warming.
By your statement I think your a bit confused actually a cooling world would mean a trend to cooler temperatures but that doesn't mean some places won't see very high temperatures just that those high temperatures would become rarer and rarer same for global warming.
Only long term trends prove what type of climate where heading into.
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2nd Largest Lake in Minnesota breaks record for longest streak of Ice.
