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Good news/bad news: carbon emissions delay ice age

01/10/2012 By Leave a Comment

It’s officially safe to cross ‘ice age’ off the list of potential world-enders in 2012.

A new study, conducted by academics at Cambridge University, shows that any potential risk of the Earth falling into an ice age will be delayed for at least the next 1500 years.

Here’s the bad news: the Earth has extremely high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), which effectively block this kind of weather phenomenon from ever occurring. Scientists currently estimate that even if all CO2 emission were to stop, the lingering effects of the damage done would last almost as long, approaching nearly irrevocable levels.

Read more at MSNBC.com.

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