Posted on 11/13/2009 4:48:50 PM PST by decimon
The claim is made that frozen animals were feeding on "fresh" green plants in their mouths, stomach contents. I don't find that so hard to swallow.Heh...
What I was getting at, each glaciation has a lot in common with every other one, but basically, they are all different from one another, hence, each one is a different type. It’s analogous to different kinds of volcanic eruptions — yet, to the fleeing villagers, all eruptions are the same. :’)
They’re already using colchicine to genetically modify their diploid plants to polyploidal....what’s taking so long.
I didn't write this to refute your posting, just clarifying what most people refer to as the "mini" or "little" ice age.
The Cooling World Newsweek, April 28, 1975
Excerpt:
...To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earths average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the little ice age conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data, concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions. ...
(RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE ICE AGE IS COMING!)
Thanks for backing up my recollection with an article!
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