Thursday, November 20, 2008

We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists


A taste of the future: Plunging temperatures around Britain created
dramatic 2-ft icicles over Sleightholme River in County Durham


It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem. We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim. British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice.

Most of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England could be covered in 3,000ft-thick ice fields.

The expanses could reach 6,000ft from Aberdeen to Kent – towering above Ben Nevis, Britain’s tallest mountain. [snip]

The warning, published in the authoritative journal Nature, is based on records of tiny marine fossils and the earth’s shifting orbit...

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