Posted on 06/11/2018 4:13:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Although researchers have long known that the last two interglacial periods experienced warming in the Arctic... Just beyond the northwest edge of the vast Greenland Ice Sheet, Northwestern University researchers have discovered lake mud that beat tough odds by surviving the last ice age. The mud, and remains of common flies nestled within it, record two interglacial periods in northwest Greenland. Although researchers have long known these two periods -- the early Holocene and Last Interglacial -- experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in Earth's orbit, the mix of fly species preserved from these times shows that Greenland was even warmer than previously thought... Greenland's ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of the Arctic country and holds enough ice to equal 20 feet of global sea level... hovers in the 30s and low 40s Fahrenheit and weathers snowstorms in summer. But average summer temperatures in the early Holocene (8,000 to 11,000 years ago) and Last Interglacial (116,000 to 130,000 years ago) climbed well into the 50s. During the Last Interglacial, global sea levels increased by 15 to 30 feet, largely due to thinning of Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets. But now Northwestern's team believes northern Greenland's ice sheet experienced stronger warming than previously thought, which could mean that Greenland is more responsible for that sea-level rise... Discovering this mix of insects means northwest Greenland's average July during the last two interglacial periods most likely climbed above 50 degrees and possibly into the high 50s during the Last Interglacial. This confirms controversial geological records constructed from ice cores taken nearby, which also indicated significant warming during these time periods.
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My comment was taken from a scientific study some years back, not from some FR guy’s claim.
I KNEW it! I don’t know how I knew it but I did!
Thanks, SC!
;o])
‘Face
Global warming is secretly being caused by the environmentalists. They won’t let us manage the forests so they can have bigger forest fires. The morons in the guberment agencies actually believe these wackos and we end up with more pollution in the air.
That’s a fact. They know it and they want it because of the money they get from those that have been suckered by them.
Parka your carcass and have a snack, perhaps some ice cream...
Silly boy...I can eat ice cream all year round. It’s never been just for summer with me!
;o]
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! I had a Klondike bar for breakfast, *that’s* how well my diet is going.
See? I do that! I even often have a banana split, if I have the bananas. But mostly just sundaes. ;o]) I can eat them for any and every meal!
It’s pretty standard.
In fact I was thinking about this recently and that fact, by itself, proves that global warming does indeed happen...
once in a while,
and for relatively short periods of time.
In between long, dark periods of glaciation!
Sounds like grounds for using the potassium alibi! Hooray!
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