Runaway Global Warming 635 Million Years Ago

LiveScience.com on Yahoo ^ | 5/28/08

[americanophile]

Imagine the world covered in ice then rapidly warming without any SUVs. I don’t know whether there is significant climate change or global warming and if so, what causes it, but at least I admit it. These “experts” look at billions of years of natural history in which massive climate fluctuations occur (somewhat regularly), and then come to the conclusion that they understand the entire, immensely complex system, that we are the cause of said fluctuation, and that the scientific debate is over.

[TigersEye]

The globe is not encased in ice and there are no methane ice sheets now anywhere. Where is the comparison?

[JustDoItAlways]

During this period, almost all of the landmasses on Earth were locked together over the South Pole. Think Antarctica times 20.

The icesheets built up all the pole, spread out, reflected sunlight, grew bigger and so on and so on. The glaciers spread out so far that entire Earth cooled enough so that the oceans even froze except for the tropics probably.

Then continental drift starting splitting up the landmasses, they moved away from the Pole and viola, Snowball Earth over.

Continental drift explains these climate fluctuations throughout deep history far better than the global warming model.

This illustration is from the Carboniferous ice period 300 million years ago, but the principle is the same. 600 million years ago, basically all the continents were locked together in this configuration.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Alas Babylon!]

"Today we're conducting a global-scale experiment with Earth's climate system," Kennedy said, "and witnessing an unprecedented rate of warming, all with little or no knowledge of what instabilities lurk in the climate system and how they can influence life on Earth."

Main Entry: un·prec·e·dent·ed
Pronunciation: "&n-'pre-s&-"den-t&d
Function: adjective
Date: 1623
: having no precedent : NOVEL, UNEXAMPLED
- un·prec·e·dent·ed·ly adverb

We've gone ONE DEGREE C since 1860...

Someone PLEASE tell me how in the hell that is UNPRECEDENTED?

File under: Global Warming Lies & Hysteria!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 5/28/2008. Thanks NormsRevenge.

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