[Eldon Tyrell]

It is sort of funny - in a very sick/dark kind of way.

[Thunder90]

PING

[WayneS]

Bush’s fault?

[equaviator]

“The earliest-known horse Sifrhippus started out this period as a bit of a pipsqueak: The animals weighed only about 12 pounds (5.6 kilograms) on average, about the size of a miniature schnauzer.”

Liberal solution- Shrink the size of human beings in order to be able ride a 12 lb. horse.

[miss marmelstein]

Sea horses! A big thing for kiddies in the late 50s.

[dfwgator]

How about giraffes?

[NavyCanDo]

Then it must have cooled down again, because the last I checked horses were pretty dang big. Good thing too. What fun would it be going to the track and watching cat size horses? And what would cowboys ride? Would be a sad day indeed watching old movies with John Wayne sliding off a elephant.

[Joe the Pimpernel]

Now, new research reveals that these changes occurred in lockstep with temperature fluctuations during the period.

Evidently, "temperature fluctuations" are totally normal.

But let's pretend they aren't so we can demagogue the issue.

[rightwingextremist1776]

I'd like to know if anything else was considered before blaming “glowbull warming”...

Anybody wanna make a bet?

[livius]

Guess what... we weren’t there “destroying the ozone layer” at that point...which means human beings have nothing whatsoever to do with “global warming,” if it does in fact exist.

The earth has warmed and cooled several times over its many millenia. Mediaeval Europe suffered through a horrible cold period that we cannot even imagine and human beings had nothing to do with it.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow so in other words this has happened before. How incredibly man made. Did Al Gores caveman ancestor demand payment? Don’t tell me: He sat on his ass all day while cavemen paid him in skins and rocks for starting fires.

[Personal Responsibility]

Bush’s fault!

[apillar]

Ancient Warming Shrunk Horses to Housecat Size

But what did it shrink housecats down too... I Wants me a hamster kitty!!!

[sodpoodle]

So did dinosaurs shrink to lizards? I bet they did.

[Sacajaweau]

This really plays havoc with Darwin's theory and the rules for predators.

Are all these scientists smoking something or what?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Ancient Warming Shrunk Horses to Housecat Size"

And now *global warming* is doing the same thing to cars...

[fruser1]

Sounds like global warming is the solution to overpopulation and food shortages.

It gets warmer, people get smaller and eat less.

Does this mean the gov’t is going to subsidize big-block chevy’s now?

[Navy Patriot]

An ancient global warming event shrunk the earliest horses down to the size of scrawny housecats, according to new research that could have implications for what mammals might look like in a future warming world.

So DemoRats would actually look like and be the size of....Rats?

Sweet!

[Wissa]

I always wondered where they got those little horses for the Chuck Wagon dog food commercials.

[Truth29]

"Now, new research reveals that these changes occurred in lockstep with temperature fluctuations during the period."

So from this and and the steadily increasing size of Americans, we can conclude that we are in a period of global cooling...