It’s either global warming, global cooling or climate change. No matter what science is convinced we are heading for a termination event. That sure sounds serious. To almost all scientists the earth is billions of years old. But let’s remember than when God created Adam he created a mature man. So if you met Adam the day after he was created you could ask how old he was and he would truthfully say he was 1 day old. You wouldn’t believe him because you know he had to be at least 25 years old. In the same way a tree that looked 300 years old would be one day old. So when they say “about 2.5 million years ago...” they really have no idea what really happened when God created it all.
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The past 17 years have seen some unusual rises in levels of methane gas in Earth’s atmosphere – and this surge might be a messenger for something bigger, according to new research. It’s not certain what this methane increase means exactly, but scientists argue it’s reminiscent of past “termination events" in Earth’s climate system that have ended ice ages.
Earth’s climate constantly swings between long and cold glacial periods – often called ice ages – where vast ice sheets cover northern Europe and Canada, and shorter inter-glacial periods of warmer temperatures. This happens on a giant timescale of thousands upon thousands of years, much longer than a human lifespan.
The end of these ice ages is known as a glacial termination, an overhaul of Earth’s ocean-atmosphere system that marks the transition from a glacial-to-interglacial period. This is another lengthy process that typically takes thousands of years.
Currently, we are in an interglacial stage of an ice age called the Quaternary Ice Age, which began around 2.5 million years ago and continues today. However, there are hints that some kind of change could be brewing. Looking at Earth’s methane levels, there are some indications that we might be in the early days of a “termination-like” pattern.
He concluded: “Roman numerals IX to I denote past great climate transitions. There is no Roman number zero, but then any future termination-scale transition will be different – a temperature step from our present interglacial climate to some new future that is warmer yet. Methane’s signal is still unclear, but the question remains: has Termination Zero begun?”
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