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Scientists say Arctic once was tropical
Associated Press ^
| May 31, 2006
| Seth Borenstein
Posted on 05/31/2006 11:52:30 AM PDT by AntiGuv
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To: AntiGuv
"Greenhouse gases that occured naturally."IMAGINE THAT? BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey Algore, maybe that is what is going on now.
To: AntiGuv
So that was all because of Natural global warming and I suppose we are now entering Unnatural global warming. Is that the Env-wackos case?
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:27:23 PM PDT
by
rod1
To: JustDoItAlways
The antarctic is about in the same place and, 10 million years prior to the time frame described in this article, there were dinosaurs and subtropical vegetation. It would also depend on what parts of the artic they looked at. Only some of it was more southernly, not all of it.
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:28:39 PM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: Tzimisce
Not 55 million years ago, though.
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:30:18 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
Scientists already knew this "thermal event" happened but are not sure what caused it.perhaps a shift of the Earth's axis.
To: Sam Cree
The earths poles have reversed many times since then. I think it's on a 200,000 year cycle.
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:31:38 PM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: AntiGuv
"...the mosquitoes were probably the size of your head,..." H O M E..... (/endearingly typed)
I'm from Minnesota!
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:32:32 PM PDT
by
NordP
(Dig a moat the length of Mexican border, take the dirt & raise New Orleans' levees--add alligators.)
To: AntiGuv
Gee Wiz,I wonder how we"CAUSED"that to happen?
To: TexasCajun
Noooooo mosquitos are the MINNESOTA State Bird, not Texas' ;-)
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:33:20 PM PDT
by
NordP
(Dig a moat the length of Mexican border, take the dirt & raise New Orleans' levees--add alligators.)
To: dfwgator
Thanks for the belly laugh!
I BET THERE WAS EVEN A "CHOCOLATE CITY" IN THE MIX....HA HA HA HA
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:34:26 PM PDT
by
NordP
(Dig a moat the length of Mexican border, take the dirt & raise New Orleans' levees--add alligators.)
To: w1andsodidwe
That's right,mankind is ONLY responsible for the bad things that happen on Earth!
To: travlnmn41
To: AntiGuv
This is 30 years old. I had this stuff in HS.
It's called plate tectonics. The plates have moved in 55 million years.
And they call them Scientists!
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:36:28 PM PDT
by
JBR34
To: LIConFem
To: AntiGuv
First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show. The closing of the Isthmus of Panama about 3mya led the Northern Hemisphere to the unnaturally cold climate of today.
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:39:16 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
To: rod1
Of course!The Earth used to fart and burp of it's own volition!!Now WE cause it to fart and burp!!!
To: AntiGuv
Hold on everybody! We're sliding all over the place!! Darn continental drift!
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:39:42 PM PDT
by
Ol' Sox
To: Right Wing Assault
I like you link! So basically, we are in an interglacial period which is in the middle of an ice age. THe reason has to do with continuous land mass going roughly from pole to pole and a large continent at one pole. So if we were to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with a large, sea-sized channel, we could get out of this ice age and realy let the planet heat up. It's almost as if the El Nino / La Nina thermal oscillation in the Pacific really wants to ciculate the globe. Only that pesky Panama is in the way!
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:42:57 PM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: doc30
So if we were to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with a large, sea-sized channel, we could get out of this ice age and realy let the planet heat up. See my #55 3mya that channel finally closed.
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posted on
05/31/2006 12:48:46 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
To: Mike Darancette
"Scientists say Arctic once was tropical"
Global Cooling?
OH THE HUGH MANATEE
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posted on
05/31/2006 1:08:03 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Democrats - The reason we need term limits)
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