{"id":19257,"date":"2013-06-17T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2013-06-17T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T13:49:44","slug":"the-coming-ice-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19257","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Ice Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Friday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">Friday<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Anthony Watts (blogger)\" href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Anthony Watts<\/a> posted the graph below on his <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2013\/06\/14\/friday-funny-well-maybe-not-so-funny-xkcd-takes-on-the-real-climate-threat\/\">WattsUpWithThat<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ice_sheets.png\" width=\"384\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cData adapted from \u2018The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Laurentide ice sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurentide_ice_sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Laurentide<\/a> and Innuitian <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ice sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ice sheets<\/a> during the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Last Glacial Maximum\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Last_Glacial_Maximum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Last Glacial Maximum<\/a>\u2019 by A.S. Dyke et. al., which was way better than the sequels \u2018The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ice Age 2: The Meltdown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/ice_age_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">The Meltdown<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum: <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Continental drift\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Continental_drift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Continental Drift<\/a>\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line here is simple&#8211;we are more at risk from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global cooling\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_cooling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">global cooling<\/a> than from global warming. Before we panic, we might also consider that as of yet we haven&#8217;t come up with an accurate computer model that correctly predicts long term trends in weather. Weather is the result of all sorts of things&#8211;carbon levels, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sunspot\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunspot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">sun spots<\/a>, ocean temperatures, etc. Even at that, we really don&#8217;t know which of these things exerts the greatest influence or how they interact. Generally speaking, we need to do everything we can to keep the planet clean, but we need to balance that effort against the needs of the people who live on earth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=a843203e-ea35-4f3a-9a17-d1d20a1b0078\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Anthony Watts posted the graph below on his WattsUpWithThat website. \u201cData adapted from \u2018The Laurentide and Innuitian ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum\u2019 by A.S. Dyke et. al., which was way better than the sequels \u2018The Laurentide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5731,55,94,3755,5733,5729,5732,5730,5734],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anthony-watts","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-friday","tag-ice-sheet","tag-last-glacial-maximum","tag-laurentide","tag-laurentide-ice-sheet","tag-wattsupwiththat-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19261,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions\/19261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}