Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/16/2009 4:39:48 PM PST by decimon
PARIS (AFP) – Sea levels were likely eight metres higher around 125,000 years ago when polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C warmer, says a new study published Wednesday to show the effects of global warming.
The research by the US universities of Harvard and Princeton was released in the journal Nature as the world's nations met in Denmark to forge a strategy to head off harmful effects of global warming blamed on greenhouse gases.
To understand the potential effects of a rise in temperature, the researchers reexamined data about the last interglacial stage -- a warmer period within an ice age -- which climaxed about 125,000 years ago, they said.
At the time, polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C (37-41 degrees F) higher than today, providing a comparison for current scenarios of future rises of 1-2 degrees C, they said.
"We find a 95 percent probability that global sea level peaked at least 6.6 metres (nearly 22 feet) higher than today during the last interglacial," the study said.
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I'll tell you all abouts the effects of global warming. It grows crops in the summertime and causes birds to migrate in the winter.
And at least one time, it cleared giant glaciers that covered much of North America. Man is not the fault and there is no "cure" to this non-existent "threat".
Two two twain ping.
Without SUVs? What did the polar bears do?
There was no human produced CO2 125,000 years ago so that does nothing to advance their preposterous AGW claims.
Actually it undercuts their specious arguments that man is altering the climate.
The pictures coming out lately of Al Gore, looked like he had climaxed about 125,000 years ago as well..
[Fires up GPS]
Yep, altitude still >> ~25 ft.
No problem here.
“Sea levels were likely eight metres higher around 125,000 years”
See, that’s why prehistoric cave men had that big meeting in copenhagen (rockenhagen, as it was known then) where they decided to shut down all power plants, outlaw suv’s, and revert back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
...I won’t bother with the /sarc tag, that will just insult everyone’s intelligence.
Noted
“Sea levels were likely eight metres higher around 125,000 years ago when polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C warmer, says a new study published Wednesday to show the effects of global warming. “
Stupid Stone Age Republicans and their gas hog rock wheels.
I knew Fred and Barney were greedy Hummer drivers!
PARIS (AFP) – Sea levels were likely eight metres higher around 125,000 years ago when polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C warmer, says a new study published Wednesday to show the effects of global warming.
Well, I'm glad to hear that. Now I know for sure that Anthropogenic Global Warming is a total "non-starter"... :-)
I mean, if they had this kind of "Global Warming" back then without factories and SUVs and all the stuff pouring into the atmosphere, then I know for sure that Anthropogenic Global Warming is a total hoax... :-)
But, yes... "Global Warming" is real.... it's just that man has nothing to do with it..
OH..., and by the way... during the Medieval Warm Period, when things were a lot warmer than now, Holland didn't flood or get inundated. So, the way I see it, the sea is not going to rise, this time either -- all the way through as warm as it got during the Medieval Warm Period, which was a lot warmer than now...
It’s CYA time...
It never said what caused that Global warming though did it?
Strange, you would think they would know. Probably man’s discovery of fire.
There was a boy. There was a dyke. The rest is history.
I am a global warming skeptic. In relatively recent history, the time from about 800 to about 1300 AD is referred to as the “Medieval Warm Period”. This was the period of time in which the Vikings sailed to Greenland. They called it “Greenland” because it was a green land; the coastal areas of Greenland had a mild climate then.
Now, did the Vikings have SUVs and coal fired power plants and heavy industry polluting the environment then?????
“At the time, polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C (37-41 degrees F) higher than today....”
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Whoa hoss — a difference of 5 degrees C is equivalent to a difference of 9 degrees F.
Not to mention that the Earth had been in a long term cooling trend beginning some 1.7 million years prior (the Pleistocene Epoch) and culminating in the kilometers thick northern and southern ice caps.
He is absolutely correct. 3 degrees C =5 degrees F (add 32F) and voila 37 degrees F.
I will leave the 9+32 degrees F for you to calculate.
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