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Ancient Greenland was actually green!
MSNBC ^ | 7-05-07 | By Ker Than

Posted on 07/05/2007 2:54:18 PM PDT by Ancient Drive

The oldest ever recovered DNA samples have been collected from under more than a mile of Greenland ice, and their analysis suggests the island was much warmer during the last Ice Age than previously thought. The DNA is proof that sometime between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago, much of Greenland was especially green and covered in a boreal forest that was home to alder, spruce and pine trees, as well as insects such as butterflies and beetles.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; dna; environment; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greenland; helixmakemineadouble; iceage; mitochondria; mtdna
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my goodness, you mean the earth goes through continental climate changes without us puny humans expelling gases?
1 posted on 07/05/2007 2:54:19 PM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping


2 posted on 07/05/2007 2:55:11 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Monet should have been smothered as a child." Pablo Picasso)
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To: Ancient Drive
Ancient Greenland was actually green!

I gathered that from its name.

3 posted on 07/05/2007 2:56:13 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Ancient Drive

Yeah, and Al Gore was once actually skinny.


4 posted on 07/05/2007 2:56:52 PM PDT by KingLiberty (As 12th Imam I declare 'Give me liberty or give me. . . twins would be nice.')
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To: Ancient Drive

AGW ping to pound the earth worshippers to dust with ;-)


5 posted on 07/05/2007 2:57:52 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
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To: Ancient Drive

Duh! (Homer exempted.)


6 posted on 07/05/2007 3:01:09 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: Ancient Drive

Go to my FR profile for my story on Greenland.


7 posted on 07/05/2007 3:01:57 PM PDT by Lokibob (Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
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To: Ancient Drive

But how can this be? I thought global warming was man made....


8 posted on 07/05/2007 3:03:44 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Ancient Drive

.....yeah,40,864 Algore’s ago


9 posted on 07/05/2007 3:05:58 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Tzimisce
Would Mr. Algore please pick up the white courtesy phone for a message ??
10 posted on 07/05/2007 3:08:15 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Ancient Drive
Sharp said. “There’s also dwarf birch probably, and willows almost are certain. But not pine or spruce, which we have in the DNA here.

Hmmmm, does this mean that man's common ancestor may have been a tree of some sort?

You know, one of those endless random mutations over a long, long time and those tree roots became fins, then feet...etc....it could happen!

11 posted on 07/05/2007 3:08:26 PM PDT by Seeking the truth (Freep Gear & Pajama Patrol Badges @ www.0cents.com)
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To: 1rudeboy

Just this morning on the Classroom portion of The History Channel, the narrator said that it has always been ice-covered and that it was called Greenland just to entice people from Iceland to relocate there, honest; I heard him.


12 posted on 07/05/2007 3:10:44 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Seeking the truth

Why do you think they call it a family tree?


13 posted on 07/05/2007 3:11:49 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: Old Professer

forward this article to his email ;)


14 posted on 07/05/2007 3:13:50 PM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: Ancient Drive

That’s why the flash-frozen wooly mammoth discovered by the Russians under the Arctic ice several years ago still had the remains of flowers and grass in its stomach. They never have figured out how such a large animal could have frozen so solidly so quickly. Maybe that’s what Algore should be worried about...


15 posted on 07/05/2007 3:15:40 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Old Professer
Just this morning on the Classroom portion of The History Channel, the narrator said that it has always been ice-covered and that it was called Greenland just to entice people from Iceland to relocate there, honest; I heard him.

That commentator is full of (shhhhhh) it. It was green 1,000 or so years ago when discovered by the Vikings. There are the remnants of settlements there that have recently been found now that the glaciers are melting back a bit. Either that, or the oil companies and SUV manufacturers spent a lot of money getting fake evidence put into place.

16 posted on 07/05/2007 3:15:46 PM PDT by Ancesthntr
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To: 1rudeboy

It was green enough to farm in the 10th Century, when the Vikings came to settle.


17 posted on 07/05/2007 3:19:09 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Lokibob

ping


18 posted on 07/05/2007 3:40:49 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Ancient Drive
Read "When the sky fell:The Search for Atlantis." Related to crustal shift theories of Charles Hapgood. A description of the exchange of letters between Hapgood and Einstein can be found here .
19 posted on 07/05/2007 3:41:11 PM PDT by caveat emptor
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To: Ancient Drive

This has been known outside the MSM/DBM/LSM/global-warming-circles. Perhaps, feeling the tide not running in their favor, the MSM is trickling out some stories to lay the ground work for the demise of human-caused-global-warming theories. They cannot just admit its wrong... they have to float some “evidence” over a period of months or years, and then, based on the previous news, claim there is no globull warming (or put out an alternative).


20 posted on 07/05/2007 3:49:21 PM PDT by C210N
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