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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by goatforce5 on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @04:51PM (#2654705)
Who gets to define n?
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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by curious_man on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:52PM (#2654937)
I don't know actual statistics, but I think that in every place there is something like a "normal temperature" each season.
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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by chrischen on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @05:44PM (#2654911)
Whoever has the most firepower.
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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by wunderfool on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @06:10PM (#2654986)
no one. we do not have the technology to rapidly alter the climate. our current climate change is the result of thousands of years of population growth and industrialization. concepts for extracting CO2 from the atmosphere in short course are just that, concepts

mother nature is still in charge, and needs only shrug slightly with a temperature change of 10 degrees on average in either direction to eliminate humans and our society

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Re:Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade by jarin on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @12:01AM (#2655918)
Somehow I doubt a 10 degree shift (F) would eliminate humans altogether, since humans have likely gone through a population bottleneck of 1,000-10,000 breeding pairs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
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