The term global warming, when talking about the changes to the climate by man, is not the right term to use. We are experiencing global warming but we can't know if that trend will continue. What is known is that there will be change and we can't predict what it might be. The better term is global climate change. There are inidications that the current global warming could trigger something very different.

Rumble of a coming ice age
Snap climate change

A remarkable change in the waters of the North Atlantic has thrown what one leading oceanographer is calling a "curve ball" into thinking that the planet will gradually warm due to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Instead, there is a real possibility that global warming may soon trigger the sudden onset of an ice age that could last hundreds of years.

"In just the past year, we have seen ominous signs that we may be headed toward a potentially dangerous threshold," says Dr. Robert Gagosian, president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "If we cross it, Earth's climate could switch gears and jump very rapidly -- not gradually -- into a completely different mode of operation. [read more]

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