Peer and ye shall find.

Careful, friend, “He brings rain to fall on both the heads of the righteous and the wicked”.

Your current estate is not an end.

Probably doesn’t mean anything, but the deepest snow in the continental US on 10/7/06 was about 18′.
10/7/07 was about 37′
10/7/08 is about 50′ today.

Must be in the rockies somewhere.

My driveway faces south, and even when the temp is well below freezing, on a sunny day, any snow accumulation will melt, whereas the folks across the street (in the shade) maintain their snow cover. The sun heats my black driveway to a temp far higher than ambient air, and well above freezing, and the stuff melts, or sublimates, but in any case it’s almost always gone by the time I return from work.

Alton Brown – host/creator of the show “Good Eats” on the Food Network did an experiment thawing a duck-shaped ice cubes on one of his shows. See scene 6 and 7 here:

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Season3/Duck/DuckTranscript.htm

The result was that cold, slow running water melted the ice faster than a 200 degree oven (non-convection I assume).

FWIW….

I mean sure this would explain melting arctic ice, melting glaciers in greenland, warmer oceans at more northern latitudes, and hurricanes reachig Maine. It also explains cooling in the southern hemisphere and extensive ice GROWTH and record snowfalls and ice in Antarctica. And sure it makes sense that most of the population lives in the northern hemisphere making it appear to the majority that the world that they know is heating.

However I have been indoctrinated to the church of GLobal Warming and therefore cannot accept such a logical, and scientifically complete conclusion. Obviously this study was funded by ExxonMobil and GW Bush (using money he stole from black people). It is well known that CO2 causes air pollution, acid rain, nuclear fallout, teen pregnancy, and AIDS. The science is settled. You’re all stupid jerks, you don’t care about the earth or it’s children and you won’t stop until all of the polar bears are dead. How much did Dick Cheney pay you to spread this propaganda?

I will now put my fingers in my ears, close my eyes and hold my breath until you all stop talking about this…

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

In some billions of years when the sun is dying, it will expand and swallow the earth. I suppose that’s “ending by fire”.

As for the rest. There will never be any “resting point for the world”. The various cycles of warming and cooling, the drift of the continents and all that, will continue as they have always done. The one constant is change.

Of course, in the span of one mere lifetime, don’t expect to notice much of it!

“at some point it will start all over again.” In a sense, yes. Human beings, the planet, the entire solar system for that matter, are recycled ’star-stuff’. The very elements of which we are made having come from long-dead stars.

Indeed there is no reason to think that we will not be recycled in the same way. Again, I don’t expect to see that in my lifetime!

Yeah, but not too sorry!! :-)

Some predict that the earth would be destroyed by fire. I think that is a bad translation.

I think what it means is that there will be a resting point for the world at some point. And that it will be a natural occurance. Such as the ice melting. With the continueation of rising Ocean water.

The earth was frozen at one point. It is now melting and will continue to melt intil the earth is covered with water.

This cycle of life as we know it will be finished.

The sun will turn on it’s axis away from earth and it will become frozen again.

Earth is the footstool of a Greater Earth.

The earth as we know it will be layed to sleep. It will rest in a Deep frozen state for a long time.

Then at some point it will start all over again.