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    Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists

    Ancient Mayan Tooth Bling Stolen - and Returned by Mystery Benefactor

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    Image of Corvus-Corax Corvus-Corax
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    Of course, the moment we switch to green tech, here comes the snow.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    12/29/08

    @Corvus-Corax: It may be too little, too late, unfortunately.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/29/08

    @an aching taste of blue: So, the increase in Greenhouse Gases now causes a drop in temps? Or do 'Greenhouse Gases' function differently depending on who's looking for funding?
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    Image of Oasx Oasx
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    The danes are from denmark, copenhagen is in denmark. The dutch are from the netherlands. They are two completely different countries who dont even sound alike
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    @Oasx: @SuvarnarekhaRabulous: Heck, I get all those Latin American continents mixed up myself.
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    Image of aak7268 aak7268
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    I'm more disturbed by the scientist in a superhero/villain costume, fondling a massive ice phallus.
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    Image of geekgrrl geekgrrl
    12/29/08

    @aak7268: add in the fact that he kinda looks like Santa and you've got yourself some good ol' fashioned nightmare fuel.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    I have a bone to pick with the keywords assigned to this post. This is really a climitology and geology issue. Anthropology is only incidental to it. So why cast it as "mega anthropology?"
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    @corpore-metal: It's a stretch but she did find the link on a anthropologist's blog. The drier climate of East Africa created the savannas and affected the evolution of our early hominid ancestors. Later on we had figure out making shelter and clothing to survive in the year-round winter wonderlands above the 30th parallel.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    I knew it! The world is Doomed! Doomed I say! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...!!!
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    12/29/08

    @an aching taste of blue: ... OOOMMMMMM-DUH!!!
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    Image of geekgrrl geekgrrl
    12/29/08

    @an aching taste of blue: *raucous snicker*
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    "Dutch researchers drilling into the glaciers of Greenland have discovered that climate change occurs more rapidly than previously believed..."


    So be sure to bring a coat.

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    Can we actually say what happened worldwide based on one core of ice the diameter of a baseball? Perhaps that area changed that quickly, but other areas did not.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/29/08

    @RAHfanboy: Yes, probably they just tested by looking at that one core.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    @braak: Stupid liberal scientists and their "climate change". Everybody knows the Earth has been exactly the same since it was created in 4004 BC.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/29/08

    @RAHfanboy: Notice those boxes and boxes stacked behind him in that refrigerated room? Well, imagine all of those filled with thousands upon thousands of ice cores taken from all over the world and brought to a central lab to study. Imagine it to be like that warehouse in Indiana Jones where they dump old artifacts.


    Now holding the example of each and every one of those ice cores in your mind, think back to your original question, and try not to explode when you realize how dumb that was.

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/29/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: Having one of your "bad days" again? I asked a perfectly valid, logical question that in no way deserves that sort of abuse. If at some point you feel like actually dealing with the subject (i.e. does evidence from one relatively small area, necessarily hold for the entire planet), and not just venting spleen, come back and try again. Or not.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    12/29/08

    @RAHfanboy: they actually use cores from all the major ice sheets from all over the planet. some sheets are older than others, but they don't just rely on one small test area.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/30/08

    @RAHfanboy: You aren't asking a lawful question. You ARE asking a question that deserves abuse. You're questioning whether a large group of solidly credentialed scientists who are doing very valuable work are even following the BASIC SCIENTIFIC PROCESS.


    Of COURSE they are. This is their profession. The only reason a reasonably intelligent man would even ask that question is because he fundamentally disagrees with their project. Which, I know you do. And I cannot have patience with anyone who doesn't recognize the validity of climate change. The world is too far gone to bother with that right now.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    In reply to Ice Ages Start and End So Suddenly "It's Like a Button Was Pressed," Say Scientists
    I dated an Ice Age once. She was a Philosophy major at NYU. *rimshot*


    But seriously folks, what caused the Ice Ages? Isn't the current thinking that it was a shift in our orbit or a cloud of dust passing though our system that reduced the sunlight reaching Earth?

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/29/08

    @Grey_Area: Looks like tectonic uplift and all those continents zooming around contribute to glaciation as well. "Look out! here comes India! *CRUNNCH* Aw heck, we'll never get that mountain range out. Lets put some yetis on it."

    Thanks io9, for making me look up stuff to make my brane more smartur!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/29/08

    @Grey_Area: Ice ages were simply caused by climate warming factors in reverse. Volcanic activity kicks up dust, blocks out sun. Increasing ice sheets reflect more sun, earth cools. Far more algae in the oceans used to devour more Co2. Co2 levels used to be a lot lower than they are now (it's the Co2 in the atmosphere that's mainly responsible for this geologic era's happy climate)....


    mm... take your pick. There are about a hundred different factors.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/23/08

    In reply to Ancient Mayan Tooth Bling Stolen - and Returned by Mystery Benefactor
    Reminds me of all the stones that get returned to Hawaii. Perhaps someone had a run of bad luck and decided the Monkey Paw was better than the Mayan Jaw.
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    Image of Slatz_Grobnik Slatz_Grobnik
    12/23/08

    In reply to Ancient Mayan Tooth Bling Stolen - and Returned by Mystery Benefactor
    The guilt-wracked Archeologist is a wonderful pitch for a show. It's like Friday the 13th: The Series meets Indiana Jones, with some Post-Colonialism for zest.
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