[Redsand11j]

Yeah, shrinking ice is really an ice age. f "Any Ice anywhere" (since significant is a very ambiguous term.

There have been some polar ice caps on earth probably since the last warm period at the very least. That means a 5-10+ million year ice age.

Even ignoring whether climate change is occurring or not, you are an apologist.

Locksley- okay, just making sure. Thanks.

[NoMoreLies]

During the last 'ice age', not all the world was frozen over. Do you know how I know we're in an ice age? Siberia is frozen over. If the whole planet has to be frozen over, then the last 'ice age' wasn't an ice age. Currently, ice sheets cover a significant portion of the northern and southern hemisphere. The definition of an ice age.

[Locksley]

http://www.rutgers.edu/

Rutgers State University of New Jersey. I also made sure to get my info from reliable sources.

EDIT: My first post had a section mentioning that our sources should be peer-reviewed journals, universities, etc, but I deleted it assuming it was a given.

[Redsand11j]

Terraformer- looked at the graph? 80% of it is in a warm state. That obviously says that the warm state is more stable. Anything before the scope of that graph is not relevant, because that would be before life became widespread on earth.

This is not an ice age- it is a cold period on that graph, yes, although certainly not an ice age. You know how I know? The American Northeast (Where I happen to live) is not frozen over, as it was during the last ice age.

btw, Locksley- do you have a reliable source for that graph? I made sure to get my info from reliable sources (IE peer-reviewed scientific journals, NOAA), while that seems to be from an anti-AGW site, correct me if I'm wrong.

[NoMoreLies]

Actually, most of Earths history has been ice ages. That suggests to me that the cold state is more stable.

We're still in an ice age now, technically. The last time there was global flooding was a few thousand years ago, when the great North American ice sheet melted.