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Originally posted by DelayedReaction
I just hope people don't use this as an excuse to demand environmental reform. The last Ice Age occured without any sort of interference from man; do people really think we could stop the next?
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We cannot stop a "natural" ice age, but the curret climate chances are not natural.
Ice ages appear in some sort of cycle. Ice Ages happen in a cycle of ~40000 years (Milankovitch-Cycle). The last one ended 10000 ago. The biggest natural heat up that happes is the period after an ice age, it take 5000 years for the earth to heat up again to a "normal" state. in this period the temperature rises 0.1°C per century. In the last hundert years the temperature has risen about 0.6°C
That is clearly not natural.
Goolges tranlation is crappy but here is an interesting interview
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