I'm thinking that it's a natural trend.
Posted on 04/26/2010 11:35:18 AM PDT by Frenchtown Dan
High in the Mackenzie Mountains, scientists are finding a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools being revealed as warming temperatures melt patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
If humans were there when it was thawed out hundreds of years ago, and even thousands of years ago, then this must be a natural trend, no?
Wow, how did those ancient artifacts get underneath all that ice?
Must be George Bush’s fault
Pretty neat.
Low tech, but you might find it interesting.
We’re supposed to think that it was always ice.
The part that I really liked is that if they don’t protect the priceless artifacts, the caribou will destroy them !!
This is the same website that is posting articles 5 years old with satellite pictures from who knows when of melting Arctic sea ice. Not one article on the recent re-growth of the ice pack.
Actually, no. That there have been long-standing cycles of naturally increasing and decreasing temperatures does not by itself indicate whether any present observed increase or decrease is naturalin origin.
It's similar to the way getting heads 10x in a row tells you nothing at all about the odds of getting heads on the 11th toss, it's still 1:2.
THE GRANT MONEY IS FOR 4 years (to examine 8 islands.) I'll bet it's a huuuuuuge sum of money.
I'm thinking that it's a natural trend.
I don’t think that the weather as a whole is strictly based on odds. I think there are natural cycles we just don’t know enough about yet. Comparing one winter to another is probably pretty much within certain bounds from year to year, but every so often something radical happens like an ice age.
Although you could say that the odds of rain tomorrow is a crap shoot, I don’t think that entire elongated periods of weather are.
See, it was the caribou that caused the first round of global warming back in 2000 BC. No, maybe it was the demise of this group of caribou that brought on a mini ice age which is now melting because of the current human-caused global warming. Uggg, I'm sooo confused! Either way we can be certain that somehow it was Bush's fault.
Wow! I didn’t go into it as far as you have apparently.
4 years to research 8 islands for ancient early American artifacts.
What an interesting job.
and what about the theory we passed through a comet’s tail, of ice crystals, that froze the earth for a while. I mean, hasn’t that been considered more than a theory?
Actually, the ice age is the norm and our present conditions are the anomaly. Of the last 2.5M years, roughly 85% to 90% has been spent in the throes of an "ice age," with interglacial periods like our present climate making up the rest.
Thanks for the chart.
Milankovich would be proud.
Not familiar with that one, but if you have a link I'd be glad to take a look. I'm skeptical, as comets just aren't that big and I don't see how "comet dust" could make a huge difference to something as large as our planet. It seems to me the ice crystals would just melt.
Right.
So it’s not like flipping coins then, is it?
I mean if you’re in an ice age, it’s 100% bet it’s gonna be icy tomorrow. not 50-50. Maybe not 100% in thousands of years, but it’s definatley ice for tomorrow.
The McKenzie mountains in the Yukon.
Really, I worked on lots of maps of Alaska and did not know that.
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