The shy is falling! The sky is falling!!
FACT: The earth's climate was once far warmer than it is today. At one time there were lions and hippotamuses in England.
The world didn't come to an end and the glaciers returned.
If the author of this piece believes it, he should by ocean-side property in Siberia now and make a killing in the future.
Having the Permafrost melt is a problem?
then the Eskimos could have trees. What a thought.
Primative whales used to swim in what is now the Sahara. The whole planet used to be fairly tropical. Life changes, and it will not abide the idiots who want a permanent unchanging paradise.
And they most certainly will again. Maybe soon...very very soon. In geological terms of course.
No, that's not what they are saying. They are saying it COULD be falling.
I guess they don't really know for sure.
Just like everybody else. Only, we don't have a press release to say so.
You don't have to go back further than one thousand years when the Vikings were able to colonize Greenland...because parts of it were actually green. That means that the earth's climate must have been appreciably warmer than it is now because the warming lasted for four hundred years. If coastal cities or settlements in Europe were flooded, wouldn't there be stories about the flooding?
I am appalled at your butchering of the facts and your reckless disregard for even the most basic tenets of scientific method.
It's "hippopotami"
The trouble here is that there are actually people who believe that the earth stands still and climate is not to change nor was it ever intended to change. The logic here...is illogic. This grand earth...for all practical purposes...has never stayed the same. It changes constantly, and cannot be held at one particular climate. It truely amazes me that countess numbers of college-educated people believe otherwise.