A painstaking analysis of surviving genetic fragments locked in the ice of southern Greenland shows that somewhere between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago, the world's largest island had a climate much like that of Northern New England, the researchers said. Butterflies fluttered over lush meadows interspersed with stands of pine, spruce, and alder.
Oh gee, the world had warmed up before without the benefit of human pollution and it survived. What a surprise! In fact, this little news item suggests we might start worrying about global cooling.
Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, has seen snow for the first time in 89 years, as a cold snap continues to grip several South American nations.
Well, I would really like to sit back and enjoy the silliness of the "global warming" twits, but we'd be paying up the wazoo in taxes if these idiots had their way.
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The climates in temperate and tropical zones experience very limited temperature changes relative to their climatological averages because of global warming. This is due to the simple fact that the higher the temperature the more energy that is required to raise it.
The real problem is the easy warming of polar regions and the subsequent ice sheets melts rapidly affecting sea levels and thus changing the shapes of coastlines. 50 Ft of sea level change is a real number and does entail a remarkable loss of earth's land masses to the sea. Land Mass loss (because of the rising seas produced during warmer periods) has happened many times before during Earth's history.
Polar melts are also known to have changed precipitation patterns around the globe by altering oceanic circulation patterns and thus the ocean reflective upper atmoshpheric pressure features(the sahara was green...Imagine no gulf stream and see the remnants of the Southern U.S. as a big desert)
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