There's an ice age aproximately every 11,500 years. We are nearing the end of that time line. It's actually getting colder not warmer.

BTW...There were no SUVs 11,000 years ago, and 11,000 years before that...lol

It would appear to be common sense when an ice shelf gains weight over the years that it would eventually break free from its own weight at its weakest point.

pac has this one nailed. Did you all know that for the past few years (I believe it's since 2003) that we have begun a cooling trend? This was the coldest winter since 2001. Too bad you gotta read blogs and non-traditional media sources to find this out.

Cold as ice. Foreigner 1978. Todd, JAP69, pac, jarasan all agree. Priceless.

Cold day in?

great song,love foreigner.cold as ice,hot blooded,etc.

Since I can't disagree. I guess I just have to read and weep. BTW Pac, don't you know what happened to the dinosaurs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbRaukW861Q&feature=related

just got through watching this on youtube......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2kgFyZzKMo

Justx, yes I do know. It's already been proven that there is a thin layer of Iridium in a layer of rock in mountains at the same height all over the world. Lithium is the most common element found in Meteors and Asteroids.

When you have one of those rocks that are 10 miles wide hitting the earth, at 40,000 miles a minute, bad things happen...lol

jarasan just because a group of people get together and agree on something doesn't make it true or priceless. Even the experts who have the knowledge and have studied for many years don't agree on global warming. They do their best with data and stats and I think kudos went to Al Gore.    After all, it's about the safety and health of our planet, right. That should be the main concern.

And what gets me is that there are people who turn global warming into something political just because they hate the person who got kudos for their take on it and whether it's true or not is not a concern, just disproving it is because he said it.

Global Warming is not new but disbelief in it took on furiously when the name Al Gore was attached to. As far as presenting facts, they can always be twisted and presented in a way to prove a point.

There was a test on "how much do you know about global warming" and talk about leaning toward disproving that the earth is warming. I couldn't help but chuckle. Each question was geared towards how cold the earth was getting. The test taker was unaware that it was slanted and 10 different questions could easily proven the opposite. So whether you believe the earth is warming or cooling is up to the person but when the only reason to disprove it is political I think is - I won't insult.

T: I was being facetious, lighten up. AlGore invented the internet, if it wasn't for him we wouldn't be having this discussion and we would never hit Pick 3 under sniper fire.

Where was all this water before it became the ice that is piled up in Antarctica? ;-)

Which begs the question: Where was the water before it was here? History Channel says: Comets, lots of comets.

Water is made of of 2 parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. When early Earth was forming, it was too hot for water vapor to condense. As the Earth cooled, the vapors condensed into water. Hydrogen and oxygen can not exist together as water in a very hot climate which is past the boiling point. But when it's cool enough water is formed. Actually, water vapor is really water technically because the droplets are very small, but we don't call it water. If you split one molecule of water in half, then you have hydrogen and oxygen, no longer water.

Some rocks that were found in Austrailia, dated back over 4 billion years showed water during it's existence back then. Even some crystal rocks have shown to contain water in little pockets within the rock. Some clays have water too. And of course many many comets, as Jarasan stated.

jarasan - There is always a certain amount of truth when someone says "just kidding"