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Mini Ice Age !!

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MatRich
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i found out that there was a mini ice age that ended in the 1850s. As a skier I was stoked to hear about this. imagine if we had a mini ice age, we could be skiing all year long even in freakin florida :O I want an other ice age like that!
Jul 17 2008 10:42PM
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i.ski.troll.
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is that a fun class to take in HS?

my school offers it but i passed it up this year
Jul 17 2008 10:44PM
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987321654hgfd
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when they say mini ice age they mean mini. The worlds average temperature dropped only a few degrees, not enough to ski in florida or all year round.
Jul 17 2008 11:45PM
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Caveman.
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If we had an ice age we would have bigger things to worry about than skiing. Like food.
Jul 17 2008 11:51PM
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Skibumsmith
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I keep waiting and hoping.
Jul 18 2008 12:36AM
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vincepru
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that would be really bad. gas prices would skyrocket because the demand would be so high for heating and shit, most of the crops would die, leaving us to rely on hydroponics labs that grow food indoors (very limited)... shit would just terribly wrong
Jul 18 2008 12:53AM
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BK
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if a mini ice age set in and it started snowing in florida  the last thing you would be thinking about would be skiing. more like finding ammunition for your assault rifle to steal food from your neighbors  in the post hegemonic collapse conflict stricken ice wasteland that north America would become
Jul 18 2008 2:17AM
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jksl
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jeeeez don't be such a debbie downer blake..move to florida and shred ill handrails!!!!!!!

Jul 18 2008 2:20AM
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landonn
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dont be such a negative nancy lolzers, no homo
Jul 18 2008 3:13AM
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Scott~
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How about permanent La Nina, being from the northwest I could definitely handle that lol~
Jul 18 2008 4:23AM
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Craigskis
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It would be way worst than the 1800's, there weren't 6 billion people then to worry about, there would be massive migrations of people, massive shortages of food, fighting over land disputes trying to keep refugees out, much like what would happen if the oceans were to actually rise another 20ft
Jul 18 2008 9:20AM
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Jacuse
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I was watching the discovery channel a few years ago and they said there is a chance a mini ice age will happen in the next 100 years. They said some percentage of it happening but I have completely forgot what it was, it was something small though.
Jul 18 2008 9:55AM
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wrenegade
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why would you want to ski in florida? its flat as shit.
Jul 18 2008 12:08PM
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MatRich
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killer urban !
Jul 18 2008 1:28PM
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Powdered_Donuts
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technically we are still in an ice age

from wiki - "An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Glaciologically, ice age is often used to mean a period of ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist). More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, ice age is used to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the North American and Eurasian continents: in this sense, the most recent ice age peaked about 11,000 years ago. This article will use the term ice age in the former, glaciological, sense: glacials for colder periods during ice ages and interglacials for the warmer periods."
Jul 18 2008 2:07PM
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Karcher
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haha a mini ice age would be so sick
Jul 18 2008 11:33PM
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.Capn.
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Ya right. I live in florida and an ice age may take the temp down form 110 to 100 not close to snow though..
Jul 18 2008 11:57PM
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DangerToes
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know what else happened in the 1850s? the industrial revolution. enter the end of the mini ice age. HOLLER.
Jul 19 2008 2:05AM
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Franny
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If we go into a full global warming then apparently Great Britain area would go into a mini ice age and stay like that until global warming is over.
Jul 19 2008 5:35AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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YES! England and Scotland could get more snow, we could have epic pow days! woot!

Jul 19 2008 5:48AM
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ATLskier
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There was the year without a summer that was created by the volcano tambora in indonesia in the mid-late 19th century.

We could see a mini ice age very soon since there are no sunspots on the sun and the number of sunspots on the sun is directly related to global temperatures.
Jul 19 2008 1:22PM
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MatRich
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lol it would be so funny seeing all the english fleeing from the cold and all the skiers immigrating with a big smile on their face :P
Jul 19 2008 6:31PM
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Klick_2_klaim
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I wish there was laser cats.
Jul 19 2008 7:33PM
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Skibumsmith
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Dude, there are laser cats.
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Jul 20 2008 4:27AM
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Grube
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yeah the mini ice age was actually during the revolutionary war so the soldiers all fought in it with like barley any clothes so it was defiantly a mini ice age
Jul 20 2008 4:55AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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Hmm, its cold and rainy enough n england for them to be used to it already.
Jul 20 2008 5:35AM
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Ski311
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whatever, we invented the moon pie. we are set for life.
Jul 20 2008 5:35AM
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bfnradford
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dude, its wikipedia, you or I could have written that, and there were no provided sources. bullshit
Jul 20 2008 10:28AM
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Mike34113
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haha skiing in florida would not work because florida is mega flat and has no mountains
Jul 20 2008 11:47AM
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Klick_2_klaim
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meeeeeeeeeeee- owww!
Jul 20 2008 12:19PM
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ATLskier
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i think it's bad I didnt realize until now that you=mnscratchskier but yeah i like that quote
Jul 20 2008 12:23PM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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PHOTOSHOPPED OMGZ!1!1!!!!!111!!
Jul 20 2008 12:28PM
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NW_Rider
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count me in for two!
Jul 20 2008 2:47PM
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49566738265
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Ya but it did get much colder in some places.  The Thames River in London used to freeze over for the winter.  Don't see that today.
Jul 20 2008 4:07PM
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