Steve Torgersen, a Norwegian mining expert, shows the size of a fossil footprint of a hippopotamus-like creature, a pantodont, on the roof of a coal mine on the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen April 24, 2007. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
Steve Torgersen, a Norwegian mining expert, shows the size of a fossil footprint of a hippopotamus-like creature, a pantodont, on the roof of a coal mine on the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen April 24, 2007. (Francois Lenoir/Reuters)
Rosie?
Places that used to be very hot have now become terribly cold — and THAT’S why we should be afraid of Global Warming!!!!!
Pantodonts, uintatheres and xenungulates:
The first large herbivorous mammals
http://www.paleocene-mammals.de/large_herbivores.htm
Looks like something besides humans was making a big carbon buttprint.
They must not have been very heavy if they could walk on the ceiling!
And the risk is what exactly? Hippos will migrage north?
Huh? A temperate rain forest with footprints inside a mountain 600 feet below the surface?????
And where was Norway in relation to the Equator 55 million years ago? The continents do drift over time.
This is really getting ridiculous! The fossils they are talking about are 55 million years old. They have nothing to do with modern global warming.
The article says that it was hot then (and evidence indicates that it was), “when CO2 levels were high.” True, but CO2 levels tend to get high when the climate is warm. The best records indicate that increases in atmospheric CO2 follow climate warming, but the article makes it sound as if CO2 increase caused the warming 55 MY ago. If so, who did it? Were the animals in America making too much CO2? Were they letting out too much methane? Were the pantodonts driving cars?
The tone of the article makes it sound as if it would be really bad to have a wee bit of Florida near Norway. The pantodonts might come back, and possibly might frighten people terribly, assuming that the pantodonts could miraculously return from their extinction long ago.
This article is one of the best examples of climate-phobic extremism I have encountered. It is really getting crazy out there in liberal-land.
Note that the Norwegians who found these fossils were mining. And guess what they were mining? Coal! You know, the black material made mainly of carbon. When you burn it, it makes CO2. So what are these sanctimonious Norwegians doing burning coal? Are they heating their houses, heedless of the possible world-wide consequences? What a bunch of hypocritical sissies. They can’t take a little freezing for the good of the world.
I thought these Green freaks love the rain forest? They want ice instead? There’s no pleasing some people.
It's fortunate that we humans have brains and initiative. We can probably figure out how to adapt to either global warming or cooling.
And the downside here is....?
If you were ever concerned about global warming, this should put those fears to rest.
I read at one point the Russians were considering opting out of Kyoto, because if it happened, Siberia would become bread-basket paradise.
In the end, they signed it because they knew they would become a make billions as a payee nation, and they didn’t think global warming would really occur anyway.
Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 400 kg (880 lb), add to evidence of sequoia-type trees and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.
"The climate here about 55 million years ago was more like that of Florida," Appy Sluijs, an expert in ancient ecology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, said in Coal Mine Seven on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Next, they'll find humanoid fossils in the Arctic.
Where was that land mass with respect to the equator 55 million years ago? That in and of itself could explain the temperature: i.e. maybe it was at Florida’s Latitude....
And were humans around to cause that warming?
The stuff these "scientists" trot out as proof of the dangers of human-caused global warming defy logic.
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