Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

There is so much you dont know about this, it is difficult to know where to begin. An Ice Age consists of Glacial advances and retreats. These glaciers are often misnamed by you and others as an Ice Age. We are currently imbetween glacial advances. We are in a interglacial period. If the only thing that sticks in your mind is the title, no wonder we are having trouble convincing you of your folly.

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago.

Ice ages are periods of time when large areas of Earth’s surface were covered with ice sheets.

"11. Ignore the huge amounts of green house gases that have been released in the past because people may ask why didnt animal life, esp our evolutionary ancestors (we) die then when the planet was warmer anyway."

"No one has said all animal life will die if we increase CO2." So what will happen? Enlighten me, parados, this is your chance to shine...

Oh, and ah, keep it factual and without emotion. There's a good chap.

"11. Ignore the huge amounts of green house gases that have been released in the past because people may ask why didnt[sic] animal life, esp our evolutionary ancestors (we) die then when the planet was warmer anyway."

I cant understand why you go to great complexity to ignore the original question.

Challenge Northeast-Passage mastered:
Wednesday, 9. September 2009
Beluga vessels call at port of destination in Ob delta

Mission accomplished " world premiere voyage successful: Two multipurpose heavy lift project carriers, the MV “Beluga Fraternity” and the MV “Beluga Foresight”, have reached their destination in Siberia safely. On Monday morning CET, 7th of September 2009, within a few hours of each other the vessels which are loaded with heavy plant modules each dropped their anchors at Novyy Port / Yamburg in the delta of the river Ob. Hence, Bremen-based project and heavy lift carrier Beluga Shipping GmbH has successfully sent two merchant vessels through the formerly impenetrable Northeast-Passage from Asia to Europe for the first time. The MV “Beluga Fraternity” had cast off on the 23rd of July and sister vessel MV “Beluga Foresight” five days later from Ulsan, South Korea. They entered the so called Northern Sea Route via the inspection point at Vladivostok in order to deliver their project cargo as far into the destination area as no other merchant vessel had previously been able to. Now, the in total 44 cargo modules with single weights of 200 tons and above have been discharged offshore onto barges by the on-board crane gear and will then be transported further to Surgut.

“We are all very proud and delighted to be the first western shipping company which has successfully transited the legendary Northeast-Passage and delivered the sensitive cargo safely through this extraordinarily demanding sea area”, Niels Stolberg said, President and CEO of Beluga Shipping GmbH, after the masters Captain Aleksander Antonov and Captain Valeriy Durov had notified that they had dropped anchor at their port of destination. “To transit the Northeast-Passage so well and professionally without incidents on the premiere trip is the result of our extremely thorough and accurate preparation as well as the outstanding team work between our attentive captains, our reliable meteorologists and our engaged crew”, said Stolberg.

During the passed days which led through the East Siberian Sea, the Sannikov Strait and the Vilkizki Strait as northernmost part the Beluga vessels were part of a little convoy behind the Russian Atomflot-ice breakers “50 let Pobedy” and “Rossia”. Small ice bergs, ice fields and ice blocks were traversed without incident. After the successful premiere, Beluga Shipping announced further project journeys through the Northeast-Passage for 2010 " then probably with the new Super Heavy Lift vessels of the Beluga P-class already, which will be launched as from autumn this year onwards.

The world's ocean surfaces had their warmest summer temperatures on record, the US national climatic data centre said today.

Climate change has been steadily raising the earth's average temperature in recent decades, but climatologists expected additional warming this year and next due to the influence of El Niño.

Ocean surface temperatures were the warmest for any August since record keeping began in 1880. For the June to August summer months, average ocean surface temperatures rose to 16.9C (62.5F), which is 1.04F above the 20th century average, said the report from the climate centre, which is a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The world's combined average land and ocean surface temperatures were the second warmest on record for August, and the third warmest for the summer months.

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Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, a Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University, who has published over 45 peer-reviewed studies, dismissed climate fears. "Man's addition to the carbon-dioxide flux in the atmosphere, by fossil-fuel combustion, is essentially irrelevant," Essenhigh wrote on June 13, 2005. "Of the two main reasons, the first is that nature does a far bigger job in the carbon-dioxide supply rate, and the second is that carbon dioxide is secondary to water as a so-called greenhouse gas. So shouldn't we first try to control water? And behind that again is the alternative warming concept, most generally known as the Arctic Ocean Model, which is considered by many to be the real driver for the temperature oscillations and has been for the last million years or so. So, is the carbon dioxide driving the temperature, as so many people seem to believe? Or, is the temperature driving the carbon dioxide? If it's the latter, then what's the problem with carbon dioxide emissions?" Essenhigh wrote. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - and can it be wrong? - nature's rate of carbon supply to the atmosphere (carried as carbon dioxide) and back out again is about 150 gigatons per year. About 60 gigatons per year come from and go back to vegetation, and 90 gigatons per year are from and to the sea. And from man? That's about 5 or 6 or possibly 7 gigatons per year, which is about the size of the noise in the nature data and is essentially trivial by comparison," he added. "And, of the two gases in the atmosphere that do most of the warming, carbon dioxide, as noted, is secondary. Water is responsible for roughly 80 percent to 85 percent of the absorption and re-radiation, and carbon dioxide is responsible for (most of) the balance of 15 percent to 20 percent," he added. (LINK)

You cant see the forest for the trees. If you are going to call a glacial event an Ice Age, what will you call a collection of glacial events ? My definition is an Ice Age is a protracted time of glacial advancing and retreating. Your definition is silly.

When you go to University (big pre-school) you will learn that what the average person considers a definition has nothing to do with its scientific use.

I wasnt asking anything.

"11. Ignore the huge amounts of green house gases that have been released in the past because people may ask why didnt animal life, esp our evolutionary ancestors (we) die then when the planet was warmer anyway."

ou attempt to bully, bluff and insult your way through perhaps because you are unsuccesful with people face to face.

Your definition is silly.

As someone who appears to me to have some personality disorder,

I have to add you argue like a very young inexperienced person

"11. Ignore the huge amounts of green house gases that have been released in the past because people may ask why didnt animal life, esp our evolutionary ancestors (we) die then when the planet was warmer anyway."