Reply #77: Sadly no, basically it works this way... [View All]

[Javaman]

There is a warm current that runs in a circular pattern in the atlantic. It take the warm waters from the mid atlantic and runs it up north. Past Greenland, Iceland and England. This is why England which is fairly far north is able to enjoy a basically temperate climate.

1)we dump billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

2)things heat up, because the suns rays become trapped between the earth and this new thick layer of gas.

3)Ice packs in the north and south poles melt.

4)the melting Arctic ice pack dumps billions of gallons of cold icy water into the north atlantic.

5) that once warm current coming from the mid atlantic gets diluted with cold water.

What happens now is something rather interesting in weather terms.

What that warm current from the mid atlantic also did was keep the various cold fronts at bay. However, when you no longer have a warm current in place to keep back those cold fronts, the cold fronts then move farther south.

So the temperate climate that England had been enjoying suddenly disappears and they start experiencing the type of climate more inclined for their latitude. Cold weather.

Now this is just an example for the north atlantic, imagine if you will this happening all over the world. In all the various northern latitudes and southern latitudes that depend on the warm currents for their temperate climates.

As the polar fronts both on the north and south poles move farther south or north, respectively, so will the ice caps.

And then we have an ice age.

That's the basic basic explanation.