Global warming or new Ice Age ?

[Deleted User] · 01/12/10 - 22:44

Seems pretty cold - new Ice Age ?

OnexOne · 01/12/10 - 22:44

yip icke was right

[Deleted User] · 01/12/10 - 22:47

Cycles, used to have bad winters in the 60's/70's, afew decades of milder winters and now we're swinging back to bad winters

Old Bloke · 01/12/10 - 22:49

These things happen!

Resonance · 01/12/10 - 22:52

Why do you think they changed it from global warming to climate change.

It gets warmer = climate change
It gets colder = climate change

Either way tax, tax, tax!

Mystic Eddy · 01/12/10 - 22:53

If 'global warming' takes hold, you better get accustomed more to these kind of winters and cooler summers due to the effect on the gulf stream. But that's a few years off yet

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garyessex · 01/12/10 - 22:54

Because people are idiots. People assume Global warming means its sunnier and hotter, rather the planet is heating up which changes weather patterns which does indeed lead to warmer weather but also more extremer cold weather aswell.

newda898 · 01/12/10 - 22:55

Meh, we're all gonna die when we become too successful anyway. So what the hell.
*turns heating up another notch*

5th Horseman · 01/12/10 - 23:28

All I know is I will have to buy one of them 4x4 gas guzzlers thingies to get around if winters are going to be like the last couple of years.

zx50 · 01/12/10 - 23:56

petertard wrote: »

Seems pretty cold - new Ice Age ?

Hardly! It's to be expected in winter time. If we had it most of the year, fair enough.

Julie68 · 02/12/10 - 00:08

I think global warming is a load of rubbish that the governments use to make money out of us.
I say its definatley new ice age. Lets face it, we've had stone, iron, ice and other ages we're due for a new one.

camer · 02/12/10 - 00:11

Julie68 wrote: »

I think global warming is a load of rubbish that the governments use to make money out of us.
I say its definatley new ice age. Lets face it, we've had stone, iron, ice and other ages we're due for a new one.

we had a gold age until some numptie sold it for peanuts.:D

Ænima · 02/12/10 - 00:12

Nah, it just turns out that predicting weather is more chaos theory than it is an actual science

raidon04 · 02/12/10 - 10:58

One mustn't forget, climate change and global warming is a measure of GLOBAL climate and temperatures. E.g. in Australia, they are experiencing a rather unbearable heat wave.
Plus, Met Office says 2010 'among hottest on record'

[Deleted User] · 02/12/10 - 11:05

garyessex wrote: »

Because people are idiots. People assume Global warming means its sunnier and hotter, rather the planet is heating up which changes weather patterns which does indeed lead to warmer weather but also more extremer cold weather aswell.

Despite all these threads, I'm sure people do know the difference between weather and climate. I'm sure DS is not really filled with idiots...

Red+Blooded · 02/12/10 - 11:21

raidon04 wrote: »

One mustn't forget, climate change and global warming is a measure of GLOBAL climate and temperatures. E.g. in Australia, they are experiencing a rather unbearable heat wave.
Plus, Met Office says 2010 'among hottest on record'

I'd rather be here where its snowing alot than in a heat wave.

[Deleted User] · 02/12/10 - 11:41

petertard wrote: »

Seems pretty cold - new Ice Age ?

Please do not give the government another excuse to slap another green tax on us.

boxx · 02/12/10 - 11:43

Winter

bmillam · 02/12/10 - 11:49

by the time they admit there is no global warming we will be well on our way to a new ice age. or will it be alien invasions. :eek::D:D:o

tanstaafl · 02/12/10 - 11:58

Oh dear, time yet again to remind people to look up the difference between weather and climate.

Sentenza · 02/12/10 - 12:16

Wish they would hurry up cloning the mammoth-elephant hybrid.

njp · 02/12/10 - 12:22

Resonance wrote: »

Why do you think they changed it from global warming to climate change.

Could you tell us when "they" did that?

Because I'm having trouble finding a time when there was an Intergovernmental Panel on Global Warming. I've only been able to find the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, set up in 1988.

Spot · 02/12/10 - 13:02

Someone did suggest this morning that the run of cold winters in western Europe might be down to Arctic ice melting and spilling down into the Atlantic, making the sea cooler. That's basically the weakened gulf stream scenario by another name - presumably they don't want to scare people with any suggestion that this rather extreme change might actually be starting to happen.

DaisyBumbleroot · 02/12/10 - 13:05

Resonance wrote: »

Why do you think they changed it from global warming to climate change.

It gets warmer = climate change
It gets colder = climate change

Either way tax, tax, tax!

what tax?

skunkboy69 · 02/12/10 - 13:05

No ice age.It's just snowing.It used to happen all the time.People just have no clue about how to cope with it.

Resonance · 02/12/10 - 13:12

DaisyBumbleroot wrote: »

what tax?

Tax on fuel
Higher road tax on bigger polluting vehicles
Aviation taxes
Climate Change Levy (on business)

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