Final Conclusion

This will be my last blog. I had a fun time researching and finding out different I didn't know already.

From the information I found, I do believe that we will see the next ice age in the future. All the elements are there. Right now, we are experincing the first signs that the next ice age is coming. For emample, the sea levels are rising at a rate that scientists believe is uncalled for. The icebergs, in and around Antarctica are melting at a very dangerous rate. Storms that we go though in our everyday lives are getting more intense each year. Tornado outbreaks are becoming more and more threating every year. People are getting worried about these storm because they are starting to become more difficult to predict. I just found out that the volcanoes all around the world, even in the United States are becoming more active as well.

The next ice age

If enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm). The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the "little ice age" of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm). The next ice age is more than 15,000 years away, according to evidence from an Antarctic ice core, the deepest and oldest ever extracted (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1128898.htm).