Researchers ascertained the exact species of plants that existed on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 36 million years during a three-year examination of thousands of grains of fossilized pollen, including this grain from the tree Nothofagus fusca. Credit: S. Warny/LSU
notice that while talking about the entire antarctic being FREE FROM ICE, they avoid even an estimate of how much hotter it was, even without humans and suv’s...
yet they STILL try to scare us like this:
“It’s also the part that has experienced the most dramatic warming in recent decades; its mean annual temperatures rose as much as six times faster than mean annual temperatures worldwide.”
...also, inside the article are interesting items like:
“In 2002, ... “It was the worst ice year that any of us could remember,””
fact is, Hadley CRU, and NASA, have been trying to “hide the decline”. because the Earth has been getting colder since at least 2003. the new solar minimum has us entering a “mini ice age” for the next 20-30 years.
even the Obama administration knows this. while screaming about warming, they admit it is significantly COLDER this year (found by Steely Tom):
” Cooling degree-days during 2011 are assumed to be 14 percent lower than last year, “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740366/posts
the ice sheets contain 2/3s of the water on earth?????????????
12 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t located at the South Pole?
Now wait just a dang minute! How could Antarctica POSSIBLY have been ice-free and forested without humans creating all the CO2 that caused the ice to melt?! Then, how did the CO2 get cleaned up (without UN help) in order for the next ice age to occur?
“Northern Antarctica”???
Is that some kind of joke?
