If we only had joined Kyoto back then.......
If we are fortunate, global warming will continue, if not, we will be in a bit of a spot...
Global warming 55 million years ago!
Ummmm... Continental Drift?...
Fossil evidence of a hippopotamus-like creature found on an Arctic island hints at a once-balmy climate "rather like Florida" in the polar region, an ecologist says.
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Where was Algore 55 million years ago?
This fellow’s argument seems to be that all this happened way back then because there were no humans to prevent it.
If CO2 peaked at 1000PPM then and is headed there now why does it necessarily follow that we are forcing it and, moreover, what allows him to think we can just throw the old machine into reverse as it careers along?
Impossible. Al Gore said that we will all be underwater when the ice caps melt! How could there have been any islands up there if there was no ice?
I guess he never noticed that the water in a glass of ice water doesn’t overflow when the ice melts either - that and he didn’t realize that the entire arctic is all floating ice since there is no land mass on the North Pole...
What will Algore have to say about this!!
Complete BS. The major difference between today and 55 million years ago is the locations of the continents and the effect of those locations on the circulation patterns of the oceans. The oceans, not the atmosphere, are the major heat engine of Earth and the continents shape the flow of water around the Earth. Do these morons have any ideal what the temperature of Earth would be today if Antartica where not centered on the South Pole and if the Northern Hemisphere land masses did not surround the North Pole? It would be a far different place, maybe with hippos on Baffin Island, for example.
“Coal has been found in two regions in Antarctica - the Transantarctic Mountains and Prince Charles Mountains. One of the Antarctic Treaty nations hired a mining consultant to have an economic assessment made to potentially mine the Transantarctic Mountains coal. After a brief visit to Antarctica, the conclusion was not to waste money on having an appraisal done.
The coal he found was low quality - high moisture, high ash content - thin and in broken bands. Far better reserves are found elsewhere on earth and they are not yet exploited.
The Prince Charles Mountains coal was better and had they been close to a major user of the coal may have been exploited. However, the distance and difficulty in getting them mean that once again they are not economically viable.”
from:
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/threats_mining_oil.htm
In order to have coal, you must have vegetation, and lots of it. Silly global lukewarmers. They assume that the earth used to be as cold as it is now.
Global Cooling killed the baby hippos!
Jurassic SUV's!
Funny, how you rarely hear much about this very hot period in earth history.
Climate is historically very unstable on this planet. From a geological standpoint, trying to “control climate” with our puny human efforts is absurd.
Old News. People have known for 100 years the arctic/antarctic were tropical. They found palm trees under 20 ft clear sheets of ice.