[Sam Cree]

So, was this before the polarity reverse?

[Fighting Irish]

Instead of building my hurricane ready supplies .... should I just scrap the whole thing and buy a parka?

[thulldud]

Perhaps massive releases of methane from the ocean, the continent-sized burning of trees, lots of volcanic eruptions

That's it! The Golgafrinchams caused it!

[edpc]

This explains the shades and cool, refreshing drink.

[edpc]

Bad news for all the salesmen and saleswomen out there! You could and may once again be able to sell AC and ice to Eskimos. Your legendary feats look small, now.

[Right Wing Assault]

So why does the first graph on this website show CO2 levels 10 times current levels in several places while the earth was cooling?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

"Greenhouse gases that occured naturally."IMAGINE THAT? BWAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey Algore, maybe that is what is going on now.

[rod1]

So that was all because of Natural global warming and I suppose we are now entering Unnatural global warming. Is that the Env-wackos case?

[NordP]

"...the mosquitoes were probably the size of your head,..."

H O M E..... (/endearingly typed)

I'm from Minnesota!

[bandleader]

Gee Wiz,I wonder how we"CAUSED"that to happen?

[JBR34]

This is 30 years old. I had this stuff in HS.

It's called plate tectonics. The plates have moved in 55 million years.

And they call them Scientists!

[Mike Darancette]

First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show.

The closing of the Isthmus of Panama about 3mya led the Northern Hemisphere to the unnaturally cold climate of today.

[Ol' Sox]

Hold on everybody! We're sliding all over the place!! Darn continental drift!

[Diplomat]

Creationist ping.

Evolution does not predict this, yet the biblical canopy certainly does make this prediction.

Also note the "55 million years ago...spike in carbon dioxide..." Back in those days the half-life of C14 was different because of all the supernova activity; that, and I heard the dinosaurs were heavy smokers to boot.</s>

[eleni121]

You don't say...past global warming not connected with the industrial revolution and those horrible gas guzzlers? Tell me it ain't so...Algore will have to rethink and review his genius.

[TalBlack]

"55 million years ago there was a sudden supercharged spike of carbon dioxide that accelerated the greenhouse effect."

And how long would it take all of mankind to "cause" even a small fraction of this supercharged (natural) event?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

BBC report here ,....but check the math carefully on the temperature changes.:

BBC: Arctic's tropical past uncovered ~~ ( So Global Warming isn't someting new....?)

[Waco]

Ancient earth just won't cooperate. Congress must pass a law or 2. algorejr,,,front and center!

[Almondjoy]

Isn't there a theory that the Earth can actually switch the position of it's axis?

If that's true that would explain this as well since the North Pole wouldn't of been the North Pole at that particular time.

That being said the axis shift theory probably happened a lot longer than 55 million years ago.

[feedback doctor]

"It probably was (a tropical paradise) but the mosquitoes were probably the size of your head," said Yale geology professor Mark Pagani, a study co-author.

Liberal science use that type or words often.