What caused previous ice ages to occur? I mean with global warming on the news front, it is said polar ice caps are melting and in turn will cause colder winters. Is this the earths way of controlling the population? Populations rise bringing a rise in green house gases causing global warming, causing a deep freeze, populations die off. Sounds like a natural occurence to me. What do you think?

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So, Speakeasy am I way off base with this?

This is a relatively new theory, and obviously, requires more research.

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%26quot;Solar radiation has been decreasing while temperatures increase.%26quot;

Come one Bob, that is only if you use one dataset out of the two main dataets (there are more). ACRIM has shown a slight increase in solar activity.

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%26quot;Some folks think having the Antarctic plate at the south pole is important.%26quot;

There is general agreement that landmass at the south pole makes it easier for ice ages to occur (different than a glacial), but it does not cause ice ages. 33% 6 Votes

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

Any cold caused by global warming for the forseeable future will simply be local cold due to changes in ocean currents. Not anything like a %26quot;deep freeze%26quot;. 6% 1 Vote
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab... 17% 3 Votes

Clues to End of the Last Ice Age - increased solar output warmed oceans, melting ice and releasing CO2
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/14288...

Baliunas Says Global Warming Related To Sun
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/200802...

Sun%26#039;s Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/su...
Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ag...

Abrupt Climate Change During Glacial Times
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/da...

The Past and Future of Climate
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/Conf2...

How it happened: The catastrophic flood that cooled the Earth
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=...

Are Volcanoes Melting Arctic?
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles...

Heat From Earth%26#039;s Magma Contributing To Melting Of Greenland Ice
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200... 0% 0 Votes
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Some folks think having the Antarctic plate at the south pole is important.

Otherwise no one has come up with a good theory. Lots of interesting possibilities but nothing coming close to something that explains anything. 0% 0 Votes

Vast civilizations sending smoke signals. Their fires caused a major increase in CO2 and started the whole thing.

It is natural. 0% 0 Votes

Lack of solar sun spots, just as increase in solar sun spots increases world temperatures, not CO2. 0% 0 Votes

s.u.v.%26#039;s caused all the ice ages.
that and....um.... incandescent light bulbs.
oh- and coal fired electric plants. 0% 0 Votes

penguins, its always the penguins fault 6% 1 Vote

Boy! I%26#039;m glad there weren%26#039;t any climatologist around back then. It would have been simply called weather. 6% 1 Vote

Cave men drove SUVs. 0% 0 Votes

a long winded speech from al gore 6% 1 Vote

haha. well earth doesn%26#039;t care what the population is. It%26#039;s just matter and so are we. 0%