Posted on 09/30/2010 6:48:09 PM PDT by decimon
It was the biggest event in our planet's history since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Three million years ago, the Americas collided.
The creation of the Panama Isthmus - the narrow land bridge that joins the two continents - wreaked havoc on land, sea and air. It triggered extinctions, diverted ocean currents and transformed climate.
Now a multi-billion dollar project to widen the Panama Canal is set to reveal new secrets about the event that changed the world.
Panama is a tiny country, but in a perfect location.
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The formation of the Panama Isthmus, however, did not only affect the Americas. It also transformed global climate, and might even be responsible for the UK's dismal and damp summers.
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"Its controversial," said Dr Sepulchre, "but some scientists think that the formation of the Gulf Stream transported extra moisture into the Arctic atmosphere. This fell as snow, triggering the build up of the Greenland Ice Sheet."
In turn, this may have kick-started the Ice Age.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Together again ping.
Maybe they will find John McCain III down there.
And I thought the Micoene/Pliocene was a boring time except for the Cacharadon Megalodons.
You were there right?
Rolled or in a pipe?
If only Gore and the dems could have been around back then... they could have prevented it.
If only they’d been carbon neutral none of this would have happened.
they can’t predict the weather tomorrow afternoon and they are trying to describe what happened a million years age.....right
Panama is not so much a country in a perfect place as it was a perfect place to make a country.
It was Colombia until a takeover of the property was orchestrated by Teddy R.
Yes I was there when the collision happened..... I hold my rather well!
oooops. that should have read - hold my age rather well.
"Its controversial," said Dr Sepulchre, "but some scientists think that the formation of the Gulf Stream transported extra moisture into the Arctic atmosphere. This fell as snow, triggering the build up of the Greenland Ice Sheet."It's not controversial, but it is completely moribund. :') Thanks decimon! I had hoped it was about the Chicxulub impact, but it's still a two-list ping topic!
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Sooo... if they widen the Canal enough does this mean enough of the Gulf Stream would bleed off into the Pacific causing Britain to get so cold the Islamomaniacs will all go back to their sandbox?
...and Helen Thomas did the live interviews with all the surviving witnesses. Unless she has a clip showing you, we only have your unsubstatiated anectdotal claim. Can you provide a link? *<];-)
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