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[pelathais]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I think our massive production of carbon gasses has forestalled the next Ice Age if only temporarily. There are a lot of complex variables. Who knows for sure?

Losing the Polar ice caps would flood the world like Kevin Costner had asserted. It probably wouldn't even be all that "bad," overall. Greenland was covered with a lush temperate forest just 1 million years ago. Now those trees are crushed beneath a mile thick ice sheet.

Also, generally speaking, warmer is wetter. Warm air holds more moisture than cool air. It was the Ice Ages that largely contributed to the creation of the Sahara Desert. Plate Tectonics plays a role as well. The loss of the Tethys Sea (the Mediterranean/Black Sea/Caspian Sea basins closed off an important flow that kept North Africa and Southwest Asia green in the past.

Another Ice Age is probably inevitable. That's the real threat and not "global warming."

*** Correction!! : "Losing the Polar ice caps would NOT flood the world as Kevin Costner had asserted."

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Originally Posted by pelathais

*** Correction!! : "Losing the Polar ice caps would NOT flood the world as Kevin Costner had asserted."

Somehow I knew you meant this instead of the first post.

I read somewhere that even if the polar ice caps did melt, it might add 2 feet of water to the coast lines....