[SunkenCiv]

Full title, "Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought: New knowledge helps researchers understand how Greenland's ice sheet responds to warming".

[bgill]

Proof of globull warming.

[marktwain]

It shows that the earth warmed more than the computer simulations thought, without human intervention.

[PlateOfShrimp]

First time I have heard the Eemian referred to as the “Last Interglacial”. Does anyone know whether the latter is standard terminology? Gotta get the lingo right.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Why do you think it’s call ‘Greenland’? It used to be green.

[TomGuy]

experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in Earth's orbit

Try fixing that!

[colorado tanker]

This would seem to be evident from the fact that the Greenland ice core data only go back around 100,000 years IIRC while the Antarctic data go back several hundred thousand years. So, isn't it a reasonable inference that Greenland was ice free at least at one point during the last million years long before any impact of humans on climate?

But what do I know? I still think the hockey stick was a fraud. (So sue me, Mickey Mann.)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Picture of Ancient Greenland Wheat Fields

[snakechopper]

Precisely why it was named Greenland. There was no ice coverage.

[sciencewriter86]

There was warmth “due to changes in the Earth’s orbit.”

According to some recent data from space our orbit is now changing as well.

And the other planets are also warming, and not an SUV or fossil fueled power plant in sight.

Back home in the boondocks we have a quaint folk saying: You can always tell an enviromental wacko, but you can’t tell him much.

[txnativegop]

Thanks for the post!

SunkenCiv

[Islander7]

As Rush says, run the numbers.

Someone help me with the math.

the Greenland ice sheet is 660,000 sq mi

The earth’s oceans are 139,700,000 sq mi

How thick would the Greenland ice cap have to be to melt and raise sea levels 30 feet? (the average thickness is 6,600–9,800 ft)

It doesn’t add up.

[Pelham]

Settled science. snort.

[FrankR]

At last I know...and to think of all the hours I’ve sat around pondering, wondering, what ancient Greenland’s climate was...it’s worried me in to gray hair.

Now, I can rest easy. whew!

/s

[the_daug]

Greenland's ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of the Arctic country and holds enough ice to equal 20 feet of global sea level, might respond to human-made global warming.

"Northwest Greenland might feel really remote, but what happens to that ice sheet is going to matter to everyone in New York City, Miami and every coastal city around the world," said Yarrow Axford,

Mr.Axford is touched this ocean rise only exist where parameters remain static.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I like to point out that the last refuge for dinosaurs in the world was Alaska. Their age lasted from 252 million to just a mere 66 million years ago.

But this suggests that other Arctic locations might have also been warm enough to support such reptiles.

[super7man]

experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in Earth's orbit

What causes the Earth's orbit to change? (And then change back?) Not thinking so.

[Revolutionary]

But if it is warmer, then more water would be in the atmosphere. Thus sucking up much of the change.

[Monkey Face]

I KNEW it! I don’t know how I knew it but I did!

Thanks, SC!

;o])

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