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To: combat_boots
The article starts off pushing the typical global warming alarmism crap, indirectly implying that's what's behind this phenom.

But if you bother to read further, this little factoid in the middle of it totally destroys the AGW crap:

"The crater formation first started after a large chunk of forest was cleared nearby in the 1960s. Because the ground was no longer shaded in the warm, summer months, it heated up more rapidly than it had in the past, eventually causing the permafrost to melt and the ground to collapse."

In other words, "OOPS! Ignore what we just said above about AGW being the reason for this collapse."

6 posted on 02/25/2017 8:00:00 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Well, didn't man clear the forest and cause the (micro) climate change?

That's the problem with the AGW people. They have just a little itty bitty element of truth on their side because man is perfectly capable of changing micro climates. If projected on a global macro climate scale then not so much.

The example I use is that from around 1000, the vikings had thriving vineyards in Newfoundland, which lasted about 20 years before the natives, not climate change, drove them out. They also had large dairy herds in Greenland before the little ice age arrived about 400 years later. I then ask them two questions:

  1. How did dairy farming in Greenland contribute to the arrival of the little ice age back then?
  2. Which coastal areas or cities were covered by rising sea levels during that period of global warming?

19 posted on 02/26/2017 3:46:10 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

What you say is true - but it also had to be a lot warmer when the forests were thriving.....meaning it got a lot colder after that particular bout of “globull warming”....good thing the folks were ignorant back then - they might have committed mass suicide.


20 posted on 02/26/2017 4:14:39 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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