idiotheque .....damn that thom york!
are we entering a new ice age?

I get that silly song stuck in my head every now and then... "ice age coming, ice age coming ...let me hear both sides!" ....sure not going to help that today i was reading an article in EnergyPulse("Insight analysis and commentary on the global power industry") where a journalist was quoting Robert Frost:

Some say the world will end in fire,
some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire,
but if it had to perish twice,
I think that for destruction ice
is also great
and would suffice

To which the journalist added; "the likelihood, the science, points to ice." And then even while reading London's conservative Herald(it's brought to my attention that it's actually Glaswegian, and actually leftish, I spot this doozie of a statement; "If and when climate change plunges northern Europe into a new ice age, or floods the planet, who looks after he nuclear waste then?" He's not asking, not even debating, but talking about the next ice age as if its pure fact, and now a given. Where was the debate? I was waiting for the debate for a while now, and now it's just moved to certainty, just like that? I feel cheated.

Is it happening? I can't say that the global power industry rag is going to sway anyone.. i mean he quotes from the Fire by Ice guy, who a lot of people say is a nutter. But at the same time I see this stuff popping up more and more, and pretty soon, hopefully, there will be some good questions for all of us to be thinking about.... you been reading this for a while, i'm sure you know which side i am on... but i dont even want to entertain "are we? are we not?" questions... Because I feel its time to start going beyond that and getting up to speed with the technologies that art going to help us adapt to climate change.

See the guy who quoted Frost, as poetic as he was, ends his argument with the dire; "Just as there is nothing mankind can do to prevent a bogus global warming, there is likely nothing we can do to avoid the very real prospect of the next ice age. When it comes it will be extinction time for people, plants and animals north of the Equator. That’s the way it was the last time" and i think that's just horse poop. To begin with if we went extinct last time, then we wouln't have to be reading such drivel on the internet; WE WOUDLN'T BE HERE! Beyond that major misstep in logic, there's also a lot of credence lent to the argument that there are many things we can do if we want to stop the next ice age. Many. I am going to be getting into my vaery favorite one in on of the next few posts....

stay tuned