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Climate change story - either fiction or non-fiction

PotomacBob 🚫

I read a story many years ago - years before SOL existed - that talked about a sudden climate change thousands of years ago.
I do not recall much about the story. It could have been fiction; could have been non-fiction.
I remember very few details. One of the details I remember is that now-extinct whole animals had been caught so suddenly that they were flash frozen in ice. I believe the animals flash-frozen may have included saber-toothed tigers and/or wooly mammoths.
I do not recall the name of the story nor the author. Anybody here familiar such a story and could provide name and/or author? Or, if it's non-fiction, where I might find reports?

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Arnold Federbush

Ice! (1978), It describes a return of the Ice Age in months, rather than centuries. It tells of the realization that an Ice Age is rapidly approaching,

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@sherlockx

sherlockx
5/7/2023, 11:00:56 PM

@PotomacBob

Arnold Federbush

Ice! (1978), It describes a return of the Ice Age in months, rather than centuries. It tells of the realization that an Ice Age is rapidly approaching,

It's available, used, on Amazon, but is WAY out of my price range.

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sherlockx 🚫

@PotomacBob

Ican buy it for less than a pint of beer in a pub in the uk

redlion75 🚫

@PotomacBob

The 1 thing that is puzzling to me is we are still in an ice age hence the polar ice caps.yet these global disaster extremists are crying about the temps rising. Don't get me wrong I do believe in protecting the environment but I also can read a book on cycles of environmental changes.

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@redlion75

we are still in an ice age hence the polar ice caps

Now that is a definition of "ice age" I've never seen even suggested.

Sparky-1953 🚫
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@redlion75

We have been in an ice age for between 2.5 and 3.5 million years. And , yes, a common way of determining an ice age is permanent glaciation of the poles and other places. We are currently about 13,000 years into an inter-glacial period. Typically such periods last 16-18,000 years but can last 11-20,000. Then there will be 40-50,000 years of cooling followed by30-40,000 of cold. Then 8-10,000 years of warming followed by the inter-glacial warm period. The full cycle lasts from about 95-110,000 years. During the current warm period the hundred year temperature average has varied +/-1.5C from the 10,000 year average with spikes as high as +3.5C. 2 of the previous 3 inter-gacials have averaged about 3-3.5C warmer than the current while the third was about 0.5C cooler. At least one climatologist has stated that the 20th Century was the most climatically stable century of the last 2000 years. The main cause of the large hot/cold shifts are known as Milankovitch Cycles. Other contributing factors include the Earth's large scale geography, vulcanism, and large meteor impacts among others.

I read the book Ice way back when. One part of the storyline was A fast forming glacier forming in the Owens River Valley. Another was a woman scientist adopting a teenaged Eskimo or other native to the far north to teach her and others how to survive the changes.

tangoperu 🚫

@PotomacBob

The Sixth Winter
John Gribbin, Douglas Orgill
1979

Mammoths and other animals were flash-frozen by Ice Dancers, supercold tornadoes.

Frank Rhind was lucky. He saw the ice Dancer and lived. The town of Hays died. And still they didn't believe Dr. William Stovin's warnings. For very many years climatologists had been predicting a change in the world's climate but they always believed that the process would take centuries. Now there was a reason to believe differently. Stovin had staked his career and credibility on trying to persuade the U.S. National Science Council to act, but 15,000 years of warmth had lulled mankind into thinking that climatic history was over. Already it was too late. The new Ice Age had begun.
One by one the great northern cities - Chicago, Oslo, Montreal, Moscow, Leningrad - came under siege. Some fell and were evacuated, sending their young, old and sick to crowded areas further south. Crops and animals were destroyed. Governments drew lines of catastrophe across their national maps. Doomsday prophets were in full cry. Technological man was overwhelmed. The world had changed.
Some time in the year future the next Ice Age will be triggered off. It could happen in a thousand years' time, or in a century from now.
Or it could, quite literally, happen next winter. This book is fiction only because the events described have not yet happened. But it is not science fiction because all the science in the book is fact. When the year arrives that we see the sixth winter resembling 1792 within the space of a decade or so, then the Ice Age will be with us in a matter of weeks - and it will develop very much as described here.

limab 🚫

@PotomacBob

Gary Larson (link to popscreen.com I could not find a stand alone picture I would link to)

samuelmichaels 🚫

@PotomacBob

For sale as ebooks, "A Warm Place" series by Misty Vixen is set in the near future right after a catastrophic winter/temperature drop destroyed the modern civilization.

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