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Largest North America Climate Change In 65 Million Years, Study Shows
Science Daily ^ | February 8, 2007 | University of Florida

Posted on 02/08/2007 11:41:45 AM PST by rbookward

The largest climate change in central North America since the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a temperature drop of nearly 15 degrees Fahrenheit, is documented within the fossilized teeth of horses and other plant-eating mammals, a new study reveals.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming
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To: Strategerist

Well I'm predicting a pretty substantial rise in the teperatures sometime within the next 6 to 8 weeks.

(no I didn't read the article either but it wasn't required for my prediction.) LOL


41 posted on 02/08/2007 12:00:43 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Global Warming ping!!!


42 posted on 02/08/2007 12:01:21 PM PST by Thunder90
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To: Holicheese

in 1972 in Nocona Tx at a high school track meet it was 87 at noon when the short racers took lunch, at 5:15 pm when the last race was called ( the mile ) it was snowing !!!!!!! I know, I was the 100 yd dash man and the miler


43 posted on 02/08/2007 12:01:31 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: saganite
This is just research into past climate change which has no bearing on the current debate because man wasn't even around then.

Actually it does have bearing. Why did the climate change by that much back then? Did the sun get dimmer? Cosmic dust clouds get in the way? Increased (or decreased) volcanic activity? Nearby supernova screw up the atmosphere? If the reasons for previous climate changes are found, that could point to whether recent climate changes are natural.

44 posted on 02/08/2007 12:02:55 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
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To: Strategerist
It's a major hobby of FR for people with no knowledge of the field in question to make fun of or attack scientific articles that aren't even the original article, just a press release or popular media article, usually without even reading THAT article, just skimming the headline.

Yup. That's because Freepers know life is too serious to take too serious. Like Shakespeare said:

"Because thou art virtuous does thou think there will be no more cake and ale? Aye, and wine shall run hot in the mouth,too."

45 posted on 02/08/2007 12:03:33 PM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: cripplecreek
Well I'm predicting a pretty substantial rise in the teperatures sometime within the next 6 to 8 weeks.

Australian climate researchers refute your claim and further predict a temperature drop in the next two months. :-)

46 posted on 02/08/2007 12:05:11 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
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To: rbookward

"Male Bovine Excrement"


47 posted on 02/08/2007 12:05:49 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: Tokra

:)


48 posted on 02/08/2007 12:06:12 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: KarlInOhio

I read about this last year. One theory was that abrupt continental shift altered the ocean currents.


49 posted on 02/08/2007 12:06:38 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: KarlInOhio

That point is being made every day---and being ignored everyday by the media. If they won't accept that a 1500 year cycle is responsible for temerature variations I don't think they'll much care about a 35 million year old climate change.


50 posted on 02/08/2007 12:06:56 PM PST by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: saganite

I agree with you, otherwise one will appear to be as a naive as the CC crazies we all presumably despise.


51 posted on 02/08/2007 12:07:15 PM PST by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: Strategerist

NO!! The earth has been warming for the last 2.653426 billion trillion zillion years. Every real scientist knows this! GOSH!! /sarcasm


52 posted on 02/08/2007 12:09:08 PM PST by Clump (Your family may not be safe, but at least their library records will be.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Australian climate researchers refute your claim and further predict a temperature drop in the next two months. :-)

To quote the global warming genius on H&C last night. "I've never heard of them." I WIN. LOL
53 posted on 02/08/2007 12:09:20 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: Strategerist

The article is quite poorly written and confusing IMHO.


54 posted on 02/08/2007 12:11:58 PM PST by Mongeaux (''I would sooner be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone directory," W.F. Buckley)
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To: KarlInOhio

I have seen some of the evidence in Nebraska. Excavations of ash heaps have yielded skeletons of jungle animals. There is also evidence that, at another time, it was a pine forest. 3 very different climates in the history of one state.


55 posted on 02/08/2007 12:12:02 PM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Strategerist
Hardly anyone is getting wealthy from paleontology.

No, but it can be a very 'comfortable' career if you like the 'work'.

56 posted on 02/08/2007 12:12:39 PM PST by skeptoid (BS, AE, AA)
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To: rbookward

"Of course we are at war with Eastasia.

We have _always_ been at war with Eastasia..."

Orwell was dead-on right.


57 posted on 02/08/2007 12:12:55 PM PST by Mugwump
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To: saganite

"This is just research into past climate change which has no bearing on the current debate because man wasn't even around then."

That's the point. It not only cooled 15 degrees but it then warmed by a likewise number taking us out of that particular glacial period. That warming was done without any human intervention. Global cooling and warming has been happening for millions of years with, or without, man being around. This undercuts the present hysteria that man is the cause of global warming.


58 posted on 02/08/2007 12:15:25 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: rbookward
It's not that these people are clueless, it's that understand that the half of this country that votes Democrat is.

That glacier period was 10,000 years ago. That seemed a bit bigger climate change that what we got now.

And did you know that scientific establishment says WE ARE STILL LIVING IN AN ICE AGE!!!

59 posted on 02/08/2007 12:16:36 PM PST by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.)
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To: rbookward

Anyone remember that sci-fi movie (about 2005 or 2006) where a squad of people under the govt auspices travel back in time for entertainment? People who pay exorbitant fees travel back 65 million years to shoot a T-Rex who gets swallowed up in the primordial ooze. Unfortunately, one of the guests steps on a butterfly which changes history and thereby present day Earth turns into one gigantic pre-historic rain forest.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is what person went back in time and screwed up history?


60 posted on 02/08/2007 12:17:30 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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