Posted on 10/09/2010 4:33:45 AM PDT by decimon
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So it wasn’t mankind that caused climate change, but rather climate change that caused mankind...
Would someone please send a case of Rubic’s Cubes to these people?
First Neanderthal: "Ugh. Ugh, ugh grunt" (Land frozen)
Other Neanderthal: "Ugh, ugh grunt, ugh, grrr." (Let's find warmer land)
First Neanderthal: "Aack" (Okay)
Where's my Nobel Prize?
So, if I understand this correctly, there were catastrophic climate changes brought on by Africans’ careless use of their environment? Well, I think we will all be needing a major (and ongoing) apology from current Africans and their disapora and a massive transfer of wealth as compensation for this.
You can only receive that prize if you answer the following 2 questions correctly:
“Did Bush steal the 2000 election and do you hate GOD?”
LLS
So there are natural forces driving climate change, and they were there before humans had any effect on climate.
Can the correct result be found using an AND gate?
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Whole communities of ape-like creatures may have been killed in volcanic disasters that struck East Africa 18 million years ago... the once active volcano Kisingiri... contained fossils of what is believed to be a forerunner of humans called Proconsul... they may have been caught by a pyroclastic flow... the abundance of the hominoid fossils may represent "death assemblages" -- whole populations wiped out simultaneously by "glowing cloud" eruptions. [Monday, May 3, 1999, "Early volcano victims discovered"]New chronology for theNew total-fusion K-Ar ages indicate that all of the fossiliferous formations that make up the lower part of the Early Miocene Kisingiri sequence in western Kenya at Rusinga Island, Mfwangano Island, and Karungu were deposited during an interval of less than 0.5 million years at c. 17.8 Ma ago. This contrasts markedly with K-Ar ages previously published from these detrital-tuffaceous formations, which suggested that they were deposited over an interval of as much as 7 million years between 23 and 16 Ma, overlapping the age-ranges of all other East African Early Miocene sites including Koru, Songhor, Napak, Bukwa, Loperot, Muruarot and Buluk. In addition, the analytical problems revealed by the new Kisingiri results cast doubt on biotite ages which provide dating for the most important sites. Thus, the strong differences between the Kisingiri fauna and those of Koru, Sonhor and Napak, long held to be due to ecology because of the apparent overlap in ages, may actually be due to a difference in time. If this view of the geochronology is correct, it may now be possible to identify adaptive trends and evolutionary succession in the East African Early Miocene faunas.
Early Miocene mammalian faunas
of Kisingiri, Western Kenya
R. E. Drake, J. A. Van Couvering,
M. H. Pickford, G. H. Curtis
& J. A. Harris
Journal of the Geological Society; 1988; v. 145; issue.3; p. 479-491
The Ape in the Tree:
An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul
by Alan Walker and Pat Shipman
other hc edition
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Sure, but what would we do with unopened cases of condoms that A) we paid for in the first place and B) have probably exceeded their expiration date.
[singing] You provide the night, baby, Olduvai the gorge.
May be, but there’s no way those fossils could be you, so forget it. ;’)
Is it: We find bones of, that maybe something, that might be a precursor but then again lived or didn't live in a wet or dry climate and moved when they couldn't have mushrooms with the roast. Man, I should have studied Paleontology when I was in school rather than Engineering.
If you were a “scientist” as opposed to an engineer you’d be practical enough to know that:
Maybe + could have = grants
In modern science, clarity and proof don’t ever lead to big bucks.
:-)
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