Friday, November 30, 2012


Ice Age Possible?


Ah!! What a fine morning , I am in what might appear to be my next life, probably a rodent(I am a survivor ) and I don’t know what you might be, but you and me share a very strong bond and I am not yet ready to let you go we are still friends. We walk out of our skyscrapers (dry trunks of trees) time for our morning fun but there is nothing around but snow, where are we? Are we in heaven? Because of our “good deeds”, well this place is freakishly cold to be a desirous heaven, how can Urwashi and Rambha dance with their voluptuous bodies in this pee-freezing cold. Well it’s not heaven it’s our earth the year is 130012(quite ironic huh!! how could a rodent keep track of time? Well there is nothing much to do.) Despite our various “efforts” the CO2 emissions just couldn’t stop. Life started to merge into the place from where it once originated the oceans. But this is not the reason why you and previous me vanished, we did lived in Venice for a change for a while, cultivated land gone …we ate lobsters only for a while …so what did actually happen??

Our carbon footprint diminished …..Sounds like Galileo saying earth is round to the church huh!! But that’s what happened. Don’t believe me? Ok let me explain it a bit. With all polar ice melting all the permafrost was released and there was a sudden rise in CO2 levels and the temperature. The ocean level rose and no much ground left to live on. Well nothing much was left. Most of the vegetation grew up in ocean beds we(whatever was left of us) survived on fish and other aquatic animals but we couldn’t stop the vegetation from blooming. It even ate away the entire CO2 that we released it kept on growing. It started taking big chunks of CO2 never touched before on the other hand we because of lack of food and fresh water diminished and our CO2 emissions were like clothes on an Indian beggar. With oceans eating away CO2 like a diesel guzzling SUV and our emissions like a hybrid soon greenhouse effect started reducing and temperature began sinking to new lows. Suddenly earth turned on its orbit(happens every 26,000 years Milankovitch cycles ) and the entire northern hemisphere became dead frozen, most of the CO2 producing animals including me( humans) were dead, well but would you like to take revenge from the plants that killed us all?? Well you can’t because of low amount of CO2 levels and entire frozen surface the flora also became dead under heaps of ice (which later decomposed to give permafrost) suddenly earth was an Italian stripper mostly while(because of ice) with little patches of colored spots(where there was still life and people like me). My ancestors the rodents are the survivors along with you my friend(probably an insect).


Sounds like a Sifi movie, but no that is what will happen and has always happened after every 80,000 years (ice age) or so, we can all yell for reduction in GHGs or whatever, we can never change earth. What am I doing now? Well I am writing a paper on theory of relativity because when the earth will turn again and bring life back on earth, when monkeys will walk out of woods they will need my paper to make them feel like an intelligent species thinking they actually can control everything. Till I talk to you next time about the next ice age. Is it how this cycle has been going on forever?  Is it how the earth will be till the Sun is not dead? Are we humans are definite to extinct no matter what we do? 

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