How would it not be a good manmade thing that the *tipping point* now is that a sudden ice age was staved off??

The descent into glacial climate is *slow*; it takes many thousands of years. Deglaciation is *relatively* much faster, but still nothing at all like the hard takeoff hyperthermal we are probably about to trigger.

We could have staved off the onset of glaciation with the output of one factory producing CFCs.

“How would it not be a good manmade thing that the *tipping point* now is that a sudden ice age was staved off??
Presumably you are trying to ask something like “What was wrong with staving off a sudden ice age with a rapid artificial elevation of the Earth’s temperature?” . What is wrong with it is the same thing that is wrong with using a very large sledge hammer to try to repair a watch. It is not a good tool for fixing the problem at hand, and it is more likely than not to leave the watch much worse off than when you started. And by the way, a number of our pre-literate forebears managed to survive the previous glacial periods, thank you very much.

Since people are often naturally curious about the future of the ice age cycle, the reality bears repeating: we broke it.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/we-narrowly-missed-a-new-ice-age-and-now-we-wont-see-one-for-a-long-time/

Some people like them some snowball Earths more than cherries, I reckon. We can farm oceans and build cities that float (fishing and Venice come to mind). With an Iceage, we can all play bog-body until thawed out by some future Greg Laden in 100,000 years. All written human history has been experienced throughout this one interglacial. How would it not be a good manmade thing that the *tipping point* now is that a sudden ice age was staved off??

‘Which one has Bob Murray’s hand up his rectum?’

The opening facial tic is sickening in its sycophancy.

Think of the reduction in greenhouse gases that will result!
…caused by the unavailability of fossil fuels due to destroyed refineries.

Sounds to me as though the U.S. should declare Texas to be a serious threat to national security…
…and send in the troops to capture their government and subdue them.

1) This is an excellent piece with interesting graphics on what happens if a big hurricane hits Houston, not missing like Ike did.
Note that it certainly seems like denial, but people in the area figure they will really need a lot of Federal $ to build defenses.

2) Meanwhile, Lamar Smith his best to harass NOAA and waste money, somewhat odd since TX will need NOAA very badly when the next storm hits.

3) Of the “300 scientists” (sic) who signed the letter Lamar is using in his latest harassment, at least 32 are in TX (and a few more have strong ties).
About half are retired NASA-JSC guys (and if you read that article, JSC is in the bullseye, near the shore. having built entire careers on Fedreal tax money.

The other half are in petroleum, many in Houston.

4) Of course, they reject global warming and thus SLR or increased storm intensity resulting.
But, if disaster strikes, where will the money come from?