Glaciers melting

[wxmann_91]

Technically, since the Earth is always in a balance, global warming could cause global cooling. Thing is that the Earth's oceans absorb CO2, so technically, if the water levels were to rise sufficiently (ice caps melting), well the water level would rise and CO2 levels would be absorbed more. After we all die because well we heat to death (which would stop CO2 omissions), then things would start changing. Initially it cancels out, but when enough fresh water is absorbed into the Gulf Stream, the conveyer belt collapses and the Earth is thrown into an Ice Age.

MHO. I could be wrong.

[Cookiely]

About 6,000 years ago, for example, during a period known as the "Holocene Maximum," global temperatures were about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today. So evidently, the earth has been warmer, and it isnt completely our fault...it appears to happen in cycles...
From the article above: Quote:

Most of the Little Ice Age occurred well before the Industrial Revolution and the widespread burning of fossil fuels, so scientists are confident that its climatic convulsions had purely natural causes. The event fascinates scientists because it gives them a glimpse of how Earth's climate system operates when left to its own devices.

For the rest of the theory please visit this topic: http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=81084

So it can get warmer and it be a natural phenomenon and not be attibuted to "global warming". That's interesting.

[gtalum]

So it can get warmer and it be a natural phenomenon and not be attibuted to "global warming". That's interesting.

If the average temperatures worldwide rise, it's "global warming". The temeperatures ARE on the rise, and global warming is a pretty undeniable fact. The questions are "what's causing it?" "what will the effects be?" and "what can we do about it?".

[brunota2003]

yes, like gtalum said, its still "Global Warming" its just that it was related to natural cycles, not humans polluting the atmosphere...