[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And this is from the UK.... University of Southampton.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Caused by Sarah Palin's Harsh Rhetoric.

Thoughts for the day

• Republicans win in 2012. They are going to try very hard to force an insider candidate like Gingrich or Romney on us.
  
• Conservatives are kept too busy. Downsize some, and give a day a week to joining/starting Tea Party action groups if you really want things to change.
  
• Get rid of the TV. Even the most aware people are swallowing subtle propaganda through the TV.
  
• Muslim atrocities in the USA are sure to punctuate the next few years. When they occur, try to open the public debate about muslim immigration. With each new muslim atrocity, the level of public discussion about the issue deserves to increase.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Save the Foraminifera!!

Tax us Trillions and we'll feel much better knowing that no Foraminifera were harmed.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” In addition, they found that pollen from flowering plants was scarce, unlike at the IODP site, suggesting that conditions around the Spitsbergen Central Basin may not have been conducive to the growth of flowering plants during the PETM.”

Hmmmmmm,,,,,....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

In the comments someone mentioned

Fossil Forests of Axel Heiberg Island in the High Canadian Artic

[Pearls Before Swine]

Is this how the last significant technological civilization killed itself? /s

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wiki Entry:

Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

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Climate change during the last 65 million years as expressed by the oxygen isotope composition of benthic foraminifera. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is characterized by a brief but prominent negative excursion, attributed to rapid warming. Note that the excursion is understated in this graph due to the smoothing of data.

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The most extreme change in Earth surface conditions during the Cenozoic Era began at the temporal boundary between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs 55.8

 

million years ago. This event, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1), and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum",^[1] (IETM/LPTM)), was associated with rapid (in geological terms) global warming, profound changes in ecosystems, and major perturbations in the carbon cycle.

Global temperatures rose by about 6°C (11°F) over a period of approximately 20,000 years. Many benthic foraminifera and terrestrial mammals went extinct, but numerous modern mammalian orders emerged. The event is linked to a prominent negative excursion in carbon stable isotope (δ¹³C) records from across the globe, and dissolution of carbonate deposited on all ocean basins. The latter observations strongly suggest that a massive input of 13C-depleted carbon entered the hydrosphere or atmosphere at the start of the PETM. Recently, geoscientists have begun to investigate the PETM in order to better understand the fate and transport of increasing greenhouse-gas emissions over millenial time scales.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

From the attic or from the Arctic?

[Wuli]

“The warming of the oceans led to profound ecological changes, including the widespread extinction of many types of foraminifera, tiny single-celled organisms with distinctive shells.”

The above quote, I believe, is one of the statements in the report with a very large and a most overlooked significance, particularly in the climate of the debates over “man-made” global warming.

Why?

Understand that there IS very large “chains” of some (varying) levels of interdependency of many life forms. Then reread the quoted statement, and then make a mental note of all the other periods of “mass” extinctions that science believes it has evidence for.

Then, remind yourself: LIFE, in the holistic sense WAS NOT EXTINGUISHED, it survived.

And, remind yourself further that if any species has the capability to adapt to “ecological change” it is humanity.

The global warming alarmists are on a political crusade, not a scientific crusade.