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Human of Britain Frozen Out at Least Seven Times in 700,000 years (Global LukeWarming News)
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| 5 September 2006
| Jonathan Amos
Posted on 09/07/2006 7:35:21 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
Eight times humans came to try to live in Britain and on at least seven occasions they failed - beaten back by freezing conditions.
Scientists think they can now write a reasonably comprehensive history of the occupation of these isles.
It stretches from 700,000 years ago and the first known settlers at Pakefield in Suffolk, through to the most recent incomers just 12,000 years or so ago.
The evidence comes from the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project....
Scientists now think there were seven gaps in the occupation story - times when there was probably no human settlement of any kind on these shores. Britain and the British people of today are essentially new arrivals - products only of the last influx 12,000 years....
Some of the earliest human settlements would have been in what is now the North Sea. Indeed, trawlermen regularly pull up mammoth fossils from the seabed, for example.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britishisles; climatechange; globallukewarming; godsgravesglyphs; humanmigration
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To: theBuckwheat
er, um, excuse me. The title should be: Human Settlement of Britain Frozen Out at Least Seven Times in 700,000 years (Global LukeWarming News)
To: theBuckwheat
global cooling is not good.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:37:19 AM PDT
by
zek157
To: theBuckwheat
It not a suitable place for man nor beast.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:39:05 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
To: zek157
global cooling is not good. Precisely. We can only HOPE that we have the ability to heat the entire planet. Otherwise much of the currently habitable land mass will someday be mile thick ice.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:39:10 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
To: theBuckwheat
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:42:35 AM PDT
by
rahbert
To: SampleMan
Humans have always tried to live in the bit of the planet between too hot and too cold. We need to make sure that bit always exists.
To: theBuckwheat
Those damned 700,000 year-old SUVs, power plants, humans breathing in and out !!!
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:43:11 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: rahbert
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:44:09 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: theBuckwheat
Are they sure it wasn't the food?
:-D
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:47:27 AM PDT
by
guitar4jesus
(Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
To: SampleMan
It should be plain by now that the earth's climate has changed on its own, without any human intervention, over the past millions of years. A lot of those changes have resulted in long periods when the earth was not at all hospitable to human life.
Indeed, instead of humanity destroying the earth, the jury is still out as to whether humanity can survive the actions of the earth.
It should also be plain that advocates of the so-called theory of "global warming" is agenda driven and that agenda is far more about reducing liberty and increasing the power and control of central government than it is about saving the earth.
Global Climate change, on the other hand, should be focused on
1) to what extent is the climate really changing;
2) where does that change damage human survival;
3) where does that change help humanity; and
4) to what extent should humanity change its activities to mitigate the change.
To: theBuckwheat
The current HUMAN settlement of Britain is in danger of being replaced by the influx of an evil virus commonly known as islam.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:50:00 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
To: theBuckwheat
"Global Climate change, on the other hand, should be focused on
1) to what extent is the climate really changing;
2) where does that change damage human survival;
3) where does that change help humanity; and
4) to what extent should humanity change its activities to mitigate the change."
Excellent. That is what the plan should be, if people were using logic and reason. But liberals operate on feelings, not logic, so the debate is nowhere near logical.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:53:08 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
To: SampleMan
...but the global whining, I mean warming, hysteria will continue unabated; as long as the issue can be used to political ends by Socialists/Democrats, Greens, Opportunists and the like.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:53:35 AM PDT
by
aligncare
(In warfare, the only moral stance is to win)
To: bmwcyle
Only mad dogs and englishman go out in the noon day sun!
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:57:55 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:27:26 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: theBuckwheat
Do they have estimates of the dates of these seven freeze-out periods?
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:29:17 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
If you click on "news.bbc.co.uk ..." at the bottom of the excerpted article, they show a graph that shows the warm vs the cold cycles.
To: guitar4jesus
It wasn't the food. Every time they tried to establish a civilization there, along came some tribe from the south that wanted THEIR gods worshipped, or else they would commit suicide stonings and thumpings with a stick. It was terrible.
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posted on
09/07/2006 9:52:19 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(Under Bush the adults are back in charge, but they are your friend's cool parents.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 9/07/2006. Thanks theBuckwheat.
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posted on
03/21/2016 4:12:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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