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And Now, the Rest of Our Ice Age [MultiFormat]
eBook by John T. Cullen
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eBook Category: History
eBook Description: In this pilot article of a series of entertaining info stories, we examine the counterintuitive possibility that global warming may lead to an ice age. It's a romp through science and history. Nonfiction for today's reader on the go.
eBook Publisher: Clocktower Books and Far Sector SFFH (magazine), Published: Infonana, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2002
48 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [84 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [148 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [33 KB]
, Portable Document Format (PDF) [317 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [28 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [149 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [99 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [162 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [175 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [28 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [80 KB]
, Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [126 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [53 KB]
Words: 8100
Reading time: 23-32 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Global warming ... or global icing?
Will your neighborhood become a beach as sea levels rise due to melting ice? Or will the warming trend kick switches for a sudden new ice age? Will we suddenly be shivering as shaggy glacial beasts stalk past our living room window on high snowdrifts?
This is a serious discussion among scientists, even as global warming appears to be melting the world's glaciers and ice caps, and sending our weather into the stormy hot/cold spirals predicted by computer models.
Whichever way the pendulum swings, global warming is a reality today, and we are seeing violent weather effects--typhoons, floods, snow storms, heat waves ... sometimes not even in their proper season.
As we will see, there is a surprising fly in the ointment, called the Global Temperature Conveyor Belt, or Thermohaline Circulation. It is actually quite possible that the Earth's safety switch may be flicked by a sharp uptick in temperatures, with a resulting ice age--and soon.
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