[NormsRevenge]

DOOOHHH!

[NormsRevenge]

Damn you, al gore and the internal combustion engine..

[SnakeDoctor]

This just in: Ice has apparently melted off-and-on since the beginning of time. More at 11.

SnakeDoc

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“400 parts per million (meaning that for every 400 molecules of air, one was carbon dioxide) “

Nice try, but WRONG. 400 ppm equates to 1 CO2 molecule per 2500 molecules of air. (Someone check my math.)

[SampleMan]

Now, a new study suggests parts of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet underwent significant melting during the Pliocene, a recent geologic epoch when climate conditions were similar to those of today.

Curious that they didn't undergo serious melting during the Mideaval warm period, or the warm period before that.

Note that they aren't truly comparing similar climatic periods, but rather similar CO2 concentrations. We are supposed to presume that they are the same thing, but CO2 doesn't drive the climate. If it did, the Earth would run to the extreme of cold or hot and stay there, as there would be no mechanism to bring it back.

[areukiddingme1]

Wait, wait, wait, you mean that ice melts and then re-freezes again...no way!

“That means that...
our whole solar system...
could be, like...
one tiny atom in the fingernail
of some other giant being.
This is too much!
That means...
-one tiny atom in my fingernail could be—
-Could be one little...
tiny universe.
Could I buy some pot from you?”

[The Sons of Liberty]

New Antarctic Evidence Reveals Past Melting

Fred Flintstone's SUV was the culprit.

[Vinnie]

(meaning that for every 400 molecules of air, one was carbon dioxide)

As the saying goes, 'Close enough for government work'.

Nice try, but WRONG. 400 ppm equates to 1 CO2 molecule per 2500 molecules of air. (Someone check my math.),
BoT.

[canuck_conservative]

molecules of air

How about that - Yahoo News has discovered a new element in the Periodic Table - "air"

[arthurus]

East Antarctic ice sheet... East relative to what? The South Pole?

[Bernard Marx]

This entire subject is truly annoying to anyone who's studied Earth's geological and climate history. It's junk science from the git-go, designed for purely political purposes.

Will Durant summed it up long ago: "“Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”

[Noob1999]

And, where, during the Pliocene epoch between 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was the current continent of Antarctica positioned relative to the equator of earth at the time??

[varmintman]

Was the Pliocene melting due to Alley Oop driving an SUV or smoking too many cigars??

[<1/1,000,000th%]

We’ve been in an ice age for 3 million years. The earth used to be 6-9 degrees hotter and there was no ice on the planet.

[Wuli]

“evidence indicates atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide were similar to modern levels of 400 parts per million”

why these scientists must tbe wrong, ‘cause according to today’s climate “concensus” such CO2 levels and temperatures were impossible back then; ‘cause there were no “gas guzzling” SUV’s “despoiling the planet” at that time /sarc