# So, Global Warming is out, and Ice Age is back in....

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**Created:** [March 5, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-global-warming-is-out-and-ice-age-is-back-in/440221 "2008-03-05T19:21:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-global-warming-is-out-and-ice-age-is-back-in/440221/1 "2008-03-05T19:21:17Z")

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From [here.](http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=332289)

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> And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
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> The ice is back.
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> Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

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> Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”

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**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-global-warming-is-out-and-ice-age-is-back-in/440221/2 "2008-03-05T19:50:39Z")

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We’ve already discussed this opinion piece and the issues involved in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=457520) thread. For a paragraph-by-paragraph discussion, see my posts #13 and 15 in that thread.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-global-warming-is-out-and-ice-age-is-back-in/440221/3 "2008-03-05T20:07:12Z")

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[QUOTE=jshore]  
We’ve already discussed this opinion piece and the issues involved in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=457520) thread. For a paragraph-by-paragraph discussion, see my posts #13 and 15 in that thread.  
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Thanks. I haven’t been around much lately.