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Alaska Glacier Thaws, Ancient Forest Emerges
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| Sept 21, 2013
| By Erika Watts
Posted on 09/22/2013 3:11:20 PM PDT by Islander7
News that will no doubt spark global warming debates, an ancient forest floor has surfaced thanks to an Alaska glacier thawing. According to Live Science, trees in the forest are at least 1,000 years old.
Stumps and logs coming from the thawing glacier were first noticed 50 years ago, but the forest has begun to emerge only recently. Scientists from University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau noticed more trees popping up while studying the thawing Mendenhall Glacier. Many of the trees on the Alaska glacier, which is a 36.8-square-mile river of ice flowing into a lake near Juneau, are reportedly upright.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; catastrophism; climatechange; doomage; glaciers; globalwarming; godsgravesglyphs; junkscience
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Connor said that her team has done some radiocarbon testing on the trees to determine the age of the forest. The researcher feels comfortable putting the forest at 1,000 years old, and some trees have tested even older. The oldest tree Connor has found on the Mendenhall Glacier is around 2,350 years old.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:11:20 PM PDT
by
Islander7
To: Islander7
I would like to ask greenies what was the climate change that froze over a forest 1000 years ago?
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:12:50 PM PDT
by
omega4179
To: Islander7
So it was warmer 1000 to 2300 years ago?
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:13:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Islander7
so 1000 years ago, Alaska was warmer than it is TODAY!!!
we're all gonna die...
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:13:44 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Islander7
Explain to me how I am going to use this information to stop the democrat controlled legislature in California from enacting a Carbon Tax?
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:16:06 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
(The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
To: Islander7
So the trees were swallowed by one of the “little” ice ages.
Makes sense.
Of course, that means we have to kill billions and impoverish the rest to keep the Earth from warming again.....
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:16:16 PM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: omega4179
Stumps and logs coming from the thawing glacier were first noticed 50 years ago The glacier must have been melting because of those 1960 SUV's (aka station wagons).
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:16:36 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you donÂ’t need to be mystified about a motive.)
To: omega4179
“I would like to ask greenies what was the climate change that froze over a forest 1000 years ago?”
Please do not use facts, it only confuses them....
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:18:55 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(Build a gallows outside the Capital and they will come...)
To: Islander7
You mean maybe there was a medieval warm period?
To: Islander7
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:22:53 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Islander7
If this glacier has been flowing as a river of ice for at least 1000 years then how the h are the trees still standing? Sounds to me like avalanche melt out.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:24:54 PM PDT
by
Recompennation
(Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
To: Islander7
Ask a global warming fanatic which is better to have: trees or glaciers. Then stand back and see how much sense they make.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:28:19 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Islander7
This can’t be right, glaciers have existed since the dawn of time. Glaciers only started melting after the invention of the SUV.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:33:29 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: omega4179
Yup. Obviously it’s a natural occurence.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:39:03 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: cripplecreek
And for a long period of time, perhaps centuries, because forests don’t grow up overnight.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:39:08 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: Islander7
2000 year old trees underneath a glacier... obviously it was warmer then than it is now.
Someone please explain to "Moby".
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:40:29 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:40:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Islander7
Soooo.. the ice age happened to that forest at some time... The forest was living a happy life until an ice age came upon it! gees.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:43:15 PM PDT
by
laffnatu
To: skeeter
Some folks are just intentionally and desperately stupid.
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:46:41 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: skeeter
I saw “Moby” the little idiot comment....
The sea level will rise 14 ft ?
He is living up to his tweeter tag...
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posted on
09/22/2013 3:47:58 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Liberal wars are about killing people for humanitarian reasons...)
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