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So gentlemen, at any point in our near future might the Earth once again enter into an Ice Age?

What might be feasibly done to hasten this process?

>> No.2334706

Leave your refrigerator on and open the doors.

(I don't know, honestly.)

>> No.2334715

A big ass volcano could do it... Probably not a real ice age but one that lasts 10 years perhaps.

>> No.2334716

melt the more of the icecaps, thereby lowering the salinity of the oceans and causing them to freeze more easily.

>> No.2334743

More Ice Caps melting. The amount of cold water that would flood from Greenland could easily put us into another ice age.

>> No.2334750

>>2334743

Not by that process, but by this process:
The cold water from the ice caps would flow into the ocean, causing a destabilisation of the temperature of the ocean, thereby removing the effect of the trans-atlantic current (which circulates hot (relatively) water from the equatorial regions north and south) which causes a drop in the temperature of the water, which has a knock on effect of the temperature of the air and wind systems, allowing the temperature to drop further, until we get ice down in Texas.

>> No.2334758

>>2334750
hotter earths and deeper oceans = more convection = more even global temperature

>> No.2334765

Would, would a comet do it?

If a big enough comet struck our planet and either mad physical contact or melted in our atmosphere... would the added "stuff" making up the comet some sort of ice age?

What are comets made of anyway?
Aren't they balls of frozen gases and ice?
Would earth simply just have more water?

>> No.2334794

>>2334765

I saw something like this on the Discovery channel. The comet would chuck up a large amount of dust, blocked the sun, and reflecting the heat, thereby stopping the atmosphere absorbing the heat, causing an ice age. Somewhat like a nuclear winter.

Also, OP, a nuclear war would do it.

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2335038

>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11rna.html?ref=education

>http://eterna.cmu.edu/content/EteRNA

So /sci/, shall we play?