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Title:  Next Ice age in five years!
Author:  Richard Underwood
Date:  Friday, 12 February 2010 10:36
Topic:   Ufocomet - Our Planet

A leading weather scientist has claimed Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new ice age. While climate change campaigners say global warming is the planet’s biggest danger, physicist Vladimir Paar says most of central Europe will soon be covered in ice. And people will be able to literally walk between countries that where separated by sea, an example of this would be England and Ireland or Scotland and main land Europe.

Professor Paar, from Croatia’s Zagreb University, has spent decades analyzing previous ice ages in Europe.

“Most of Europe will be under ice, including Germany, Poland, France, Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia,” the professor said in an interview with Croatian news website index.

“Previous ice ages lasted about 70,000 years. That’s a fact and the new Ice Age can’t be avoided. The big question is what will happen to the people of European countries, which are under ice? They might migrate to the south or might stay, but with a huge increase in energy use, this could happen in five, ten, fifty or hundred years, or even later. We can’t predict it precisely, but it will come.

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The last ice age was 20,000 years ago, when large sheets of ice covered most of North America and Europe. The Professor added: “The reality is that mankind needs to start preparing for the ice age, we are at the end of the global warming period. The ice age is to follow. The global warming period should have ended thousands of years ago; we should already be in the ice age. Therefore we do not know precisely when it could start – but soon”

Professor Paar said scientists think global warming is simply a natural element of the planet’s make-up. He said: “ Some 130,000 years ago the earth’s temperature was the same as now, the level CO” was almost the same and the level of the sea was four metres higher. They keep warning people about global warming, but half of America no longer believes it as they keep freezing.”

Professor Paar said it will be possible for man to survive the ice age but energy costs will be huge. He added: “Food production also might be a problem. It would be produced in greenhouses with a lot of energy spent to heat it. The nuclear energy we know today will not last longer than 100 years as we simply do not have enough uranium in the world to match the needs in the ice age. But I’m still optimistic. There is the process of nuclear fusion happening on the sun. The fuel for the process is hydrogen and such a power plant is already worked on in France as a consortium involving firms from the EU, the US, Russia, China, Japan and south Korea.”

Professor Paar said he knew about the plans, as the head of the project was a former Japanese ambassador in Croatia. The new power plant will take at least another ten years to build.

Last Updated on Friday, 12 February 2010 16:49