https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age (Mini Ice Age)
Excerpt from Wikipedia article:
The NASA Earth Observatory notes three particularly cold intervals: one beginning about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850, all separated by intervals of slight warming.....
Temperatures trailing off from a global warming period can be followed by a mini ice age or "Little Ice Age". In several examples recorded from studies, including NASA studies, the effect of mini ice ages has been a reality.
Preparing for the circumstance would be beneficial to human kind and an effort to preserve animal species, that can be isolated in hostile environmental factors, can be made now.
Supplies of coal, clean burning coal from America and other countries and set aside reserves of oil and natural gas would be most beneficial in survival situations. The cold from the little ice ages can last for periods of time that are variable.
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Is there a relationship between the warming temperature at peak levels and the fall of global temperatures? It seems that there may be. In any case it would be necessary to study climate change from a standpoint of global warming/mini ice age trends to try and predict the impact of a possible ice age event.
Primarily, the preparations should include energy resources, food, medicines, vehicles, with emphasis on supplies for homes and necessary buildings. The data shows that an average mini ice age could last as long as 200 years! In that case the more coal and natural gas that is stored for a population, the better. Solar panels probably wont help much in a time like that.
Trying to counteract global warming by controlling emissions from industry and fossil fuels is not a very bright idea. However you think of the problem associated with global warming. The worst problem would be a mini ice age.
Fossil fuels did not create global warming in the past. The theory is that man caused an imbalance in nature and that imbalance in turn caused global warming. (Cave man campfires.) Cow farts. (Seriously, they think that.)
The notion is preposterous. In reality global warming is a natural occurrence and repeatedly happens over a period of time. Climate change happens because of global warming. Climate change does not happen because of fossil fuels or cave men cooking buffalo or brontosaurus burgers.
Really.
As a state that is rich in natural gas, oil, and coal, we should have a system of preparation to get ready for a mini ice age if it happens. Coal production should be geared up to supply nations the coal at non market prices - nations that are third world nations. They will need a supply of clean burning coal, (not pet coke) to use for heating. It may be possible to assist those poorer nations in well drilling operations so they can supply some natural gas for themselves and hold amounts in reserves.
A mini ice age may be challenging for earth people but I think we can prepare and weather the changes without becoming victims of real climate changes.
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