It also means the earth has been a whole lot warmer in the past than it is now. So are we "confronted with global warming" or just going through a natural planetary cycle? And, BTW, duh; it was called Greenland because it was green.
Which is more than can be said about Algore.
Blam, do you have a ping list for this kind of stuff? If so, please add me to it. Thanks!
It was a fairly balmy November and themperature varied from about -40F to -75F. In fact when I called for a C-130 to come pick us up we were told that the weather was -68F and the Air Force would not dispatch aircraft when it was that cold. We had to wait for two days for it to warm up to -61F and our transport came and picked us up and took us to Dye 4 which was Kulusuk Greenland.
Talk about adventures! I spent a year traveling from Eastern Greenland to Western Alaska about 100 miles from Siberia. I saw Moose, Polar Bears, Musk Oxes, White Foxes, ptarmagan birds and even savored some blubber. Yuk, to the blubber. Been there and know for a fact that the Caribou have benefited from the Alaska Pipeline, The Anwar should be tapped and Alglore don't know what he's talking about!
In other words: “Global Warming is not a new thing”
Gosh, the earth gets warm and cool in cycles. You would think Algore, inventor of the internet would know this. ha ha ha!
What brought about this terrible change in climate? We know it wasn’t hydrocarbons.
The Democrats need false crisis, so that they can pretend to have the solution.
That signifies that there was ice there during the Eemian interglacial period 125,000 years ago. It means that although we are now confronted with global warming, the whole ice sheet will not melt and bring about the tremendous sea-level rises which have been the subject of so much discussion.
Right on until here -- with all due respect, how can it be said that the whole ice sheet won't melt? 125,000 years ago is nothing. Nada. Zip. Heck, 450 million years ago is nothing. If that's the sampling we're going on for forecasting the state of the globe, we're dreaming if we think we have a clue. It's 4 and a half billion years old, for God's sake. I just don't see how anybody can be certain that the ice won't melt and freeze up again over the handful of 450-million-year cycles yet to pass.
They be claiming the Earth be older than 10,000 years matey! Ping.
It would rock if they found oil - enough to usher in a new age of $1/gallon gasoline!
They discovered the Greenland ice shelf is at least 400,00 to 800,000 years old. Certainly it was around the time Erik the Red named the island. According to author Eske Willerslev, the Greenland ice shelf "has not contributed to global sea level rise during the last interglacial. Importantly, it does not mean that we should not be worried about future global warming as the sea level rise of five to six meters during the last interglacial must have come from somewhere."
Finally, Martin Sharp warns the study "does not prove the current global warming trend is not human induced". If anything, "we may be heading for even bigger temperature increases than we previously thought".
Ancient Greenland was actually green!
MSNBC | 7-05-07 | By Ker Than
Posted on 07/05/2007 5:54:18 PM EDT by Ancient Drive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861403/posts
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A little commentary on the Science Daily article from CreationSafaris.com:
Ignore the dating methods, since whenever they try to get two ends to meet, it breaks in the middle. Being off by 300% tells you something about dating methods. Hasn’t Willerslev heard that the molecular clock is broken? You can’t build anything solid on Darwin quicksand.
Notice how global warming was not caused by humans even with their own evidence and reasoning. That did not stop Nature and Science from publishing more scare hype about human-caused global warming this week.
http://creationsafaris.com/crev200707.htm#20070706a
DNA reveals a green GreenlandScientists have drilled through two kilometres of ice in southern Greenland and retrieved DNA from the pine forest that once existed there, buzzing with prehistoric insect life. Dated to between 450,000 and 800,000 years old, the DNA is among the oldest ever found... plant fossils dating to 2.4 million years ago have been found in the far northeast of the country. But, surprisingly, the DNA evidence for plant life stops at 450,000 years ago. Researchers say the lack of younger DNA suggests that this portion of the land has been covered by ice ever since -- and that goes against the prevailing view of Greenland's climatic history. During the last interglacial period (130-116 thousand years ago), the climate was 5 °C warmer than it is today, says Eske Willerslev, director of the centre for ancient genetics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. "Sea levels were 5-6 metres higher, and most scientific models have assumed that the melting of the southern Greenland ice cap was responsible. But our data suggest that this was not the case."
by Louis Buckley
July 5, 2007