Melting Glacier Reveals Ancient Tree Stumps

Live Science ^ | 10-30-2007

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[2banana]

You mean 7,000 years ago we had global warming too?

[Hoodlum91]

That’s impossible. We’re constantly told that right now is the warmest we’ve ever been.

[Steely Tom]

You mean 7,000 years ago we had global warming too?

Yeah, but that was good global warming.

[Names Ash Housewares]

So the trees grew there when it was much warmer in the past then today obviously.

Oh.

It was natural back then for trees to grow there and no ice?

But... not now?

Got it.

[Clint N. Suhks]

An inconvenient tree stump?

[bigfootbob]

The last paragraph was written by someone worried about future government funding for their chosen field of study.

[TomGuy]

Uhhhh....

If they are finding tree stumps,

that means there were trees at one time,

which means the ice didn’t cover the area,

which means there must have been global warming 7,000 years ago.

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Those melting glaciers could mess up the current global warming cries.

[TheDon]

Hehe!

[ClearCase_guy]

"one has to turn away from natural ones alone to explain this dramatic change of the past 150 years."

Unbelievable. Clearly, a natural process buried these trees in ice. But the reverse process simply MUST be caused by man.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Boy, you would think there was some kind of repeating cycle going on. Nah, can't be.

[Blood of Tyrants]

No, we had global COOLING. The global warming was for a long period preceding that.

[SengirV]

That part always seems to get glossed over in these articles.

[eyedigress]

The discovery and proliferation of fire by cavemen allowed these trees to grow during the last human-induced globull warming period. Early Man Bear Pig then killed all the cavemen and presto, Ice Age.

[G-Bear]

If a glacier destroys a forest, and nobody hears it.......

[Blood of Tyrants]

"It seems like an unprecedented change in a short amount of time," Koch said. "From this work and many other studies looking at forcings of the climate system, one has to turn away from natural ones alone to explain this dramatic change of the past 150 years."

He is a globull warming alarmist to the end. While the globull warming 7,000 years ago HAD to have been a natural occurance, there is NO WAY it is THIS time. </sarc>

[DesScorp]

The planet is just naturally switching its temperature, as it does from time to time. Al Gore doesn’t have a damn thing to do with it. We’re coming out of the “little ice age”.

[RightWhale]

one has to turn away from natural ones alone to explain this dramatic change of the past 150 years

The invention of photography, which coincided with the discovery of socialism explains most of the dramatic change.

[colorado tanker]

It’s interesting that all this occurred during the present interglacial. So, after the last glacial max the glaciers retreated enough for a forest to appear, but then marched back down to cover the forest until now. Curious.