Does this mean I won't have ice cubes?

Question

I really like them though. They feel really good on my bare skin. Will I not have them anymore after the Global Warming strikes?

Answer 1

I wanna run ice cubes down your body..That sounds fun

Answer 2

Negative. Global warming shall smite all ye holdeth dear, all at once, and you'll never see it coming. It'll be like, BAM! "What was that? I think it was Batman!" and Al Gore will say "Oh no! it was global warming! Booyha suckah! Gimme a million dollars!"

Answer 3

Make a machine that collects the fresh water as it evaporates

from the sea. Like when people collect sea water for, sea salt beds. Water drys up in the sea bed and leaves sea salt behind, to be collected and sold in stores. Why not collect the fresh water that gos up into the air and use it instead?

Answer 4

You'll still have them, they just won't be cold anymore.

Answer 5

no sadly the GLOBAL WARMING will strike soon and we will all be lost without our Ice Cubes... NO MORE COLD BEER AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Answer 6

I know he's conservative, but just for kicks and tickles, read this article. There are a couple of reference links at the end.... I think your ice cubes are safe.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/s...

Here's an excerpt.

"This is from the DailyTech.com.  It's a science website.  All four major global temperature tracking outlets -- Hadley, NASA's GISS, the UAH, and the RSS -- have data showing that global temperatures have dropped big-time.  Does this mean that Al Gore is out of a job?  Does it mean that they should rescind his Nobel Peace Prize?  Will Al Gore just jump on the cold bandwagon, or do something more fun?  World temperatures, according to the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction, is the chart that is exhibited here -- we'll put this up at RushLimbaugh.com so you can see it -- and you can see the sharp drop over the last year.  It is a huge drop.  As we reported yesterday, more snow and ice cover the northern hemisphere than at any time since 1966.  The 12-month-long drop -- now, get this, because this is crucial -- the drop in global temperatures this past year has wiped out one century of warming.  We went up one degree Celsius, we think, in 100 years, in one century.  In one year, it's been wiped out."

My father-in-law was a meteorologist for the USAF. He may be an overbearing, arrogant pain in the f***y, but he's not a stupid man. Climatic cycles are decades (nearly centuries) long. Yes, the last 50 years have shown a warming trend. And we will then cool off for a while... and then we will warm again, and then cool.

Man, I hate winter. Oh, well...

Answer 7

That's right, by the time they're done taxing us over this imaginary problem, no one but the politicians will be able to afford ice cubes.

Answer 8

Here's an interesting comment by scientist James Lovelock:

"A few years ago, I published an article in Science,the American equivalent of Nature. In it, I considered what might happen in the 21st century. Perhaps we would go on slowly getting a little more crowded and a little more polluted, but still civilisation would be much as before. Alternatively, we could suffer any one of several catastrophes, such as a volcanic eruption no more severe than Tamboura in 1815 or Laki in Iceland in 1783. These two volcanoes put so much dust into the air that the sun's rays were enfeebled, the earth grew cool and there were two years without harvest. There were then far fewer people in the world, so there were famines, but not enough to destroy civilisation. Just imagine what would happen now. It is said that we have no more than 15-50 days' grain stocks in store at any one time. Two years makes this seem a very short time."

http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/lovelock-o...

Modern economies are very fragile.  If global warming affects crop yields and global economies, civilization could collapse and you'll have no electrical power to run your refrigerator... no ice cubes.  Of course ice cubes will be the least of your worries.

Here's one possible scenario for global riots and anarchy in about 12 years:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/...

Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.

Randall told The Observer that the potential ramifications of rapid climate change would create global chaos. 'This is depressing stuff,' he said. 'It is a national security threat that is unique because there is no enemy to point your guns at and we have no control over the threat.'

Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a disaster happening. 'We don't know exactly where we are in the process. It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,' he said.

'The consequences for some nations of the climate change are unbelievable. It seems obvious that cutting the use of fossil fuels would be worthwhile.'

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The Pentagon certainly isn't saying that it's the most likely scenario for 2020, but we have no firm plan for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of the two largest sources, China and the U.S., so we do seem to have a very bleak outlook for the future, whether it's 2020 or 2030 or some other date.

Answer 9

That's OK, Europeans have been doing without them for years and they're getting by....

Answer 10

Don't hold your breath for GW.

Answer 11

You can always freeze water in the freezer.