Can global warming cause ice age . If yes then why ?
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We are not sure. There are like two theories.
The first says that we through climate change are getting out of the glaciation cycles (and into the unknown, which is not precisely the best strategy) so we will skip this glaciation and get into a warm period. Or at least will delay it for some centuries.The other says that from paleoclimatic data before every glaciation there was a very short (in geological timescale) of high temperatures, so we may be artificially making an ice age ahead of time.
The most powerful mechanisms in climate are the positive or negative feedbacks, those are which ultimately control climate. In this case we have the glacial positive feedback making the earth go into a cold period, as it happened at least 20 times during the last some million years, and the warming feedbacks. Both are incredibly powerful and we really don’t know which is going to win. Some models say one, some models say the other
The first says that we through climate change are getting out of the glaciation cycles (and into the unknown, which is not precisely the best strategy) so we will skip this glaciation and get into a warm period. Or at least will delay it for some centuries.The other says that from paleoclimatic data before every glaciation there was a very short (in geological timescale) of high temperatures, so we may be artificially making an ice age ahead of time.
The most powerful mechanisms in climate are the positive or negative feedbacks, those are which ultimately control climate. In this case we have the glacial positive feedback making the earth go into a cold period, as it happened at least 20 times during the last some million years, and the warming feedbacks. Both are incredibly powerful and we really don’t know which is going to win. Some models say one, some models say the other
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