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Re: Climate Change
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Originally Posted by papa smurf View Post
yea i remember when that asteroid hit the gulf of america the sky went dark and all the dinosaurs died
Ha, newbie, I definitely recall the Late Devonian mass extinction event, now that was a real one, youngsters of today - no bloody idea.....

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Originally Posted by Itshim View Post
I remember as a youngster reading the next ice age was coming in my lifetime
Technically, as there is permanent ice at both poles then we are in an ice age - currently though we are in an interglacial period where the ice is melting back rather than advancing.

It was accepted in the 60’s by some scientists that the Earth would continue to cool, but the public messaging was somewhat less than optimal. The idea of the UK being covered in ice within a lifetime was ludicrous - these timescales run to tens of thousands of years.
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