Posted on 03/06/2011 9:19:47 AM PST by smokingfrog
Ah. Compared to today's SUVs, is it safe to say the LUBs emitted enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet.
No, wait a minute. The planet was obviously already warm.
This is all so confusing. I need another beer.
So what use are ice cores beyond a limited depth?
There is another factor to be considered, but I get where you’re coming from. One thing we’ve learned about the earth is that some land masses, plates for instance, sink over the milinias with the massive weight of moutains (or ice) on top of them. As the glaceirs melted in North Amercia, land masses that we once depressed, rose up.
Wouldn’t some of this “equaling of the crust” have the effect of compensating for the loss of ice. I.e. Greenland would begin to rise as the enormous weight is relieved? All things being equal in a sphere, wouldn’t that cause another area to settle? Probably the ocean floor, for example?
I’m no scientist. In fact, I suck at complex mathematics so my theory is only that. What do you think?
Paris is at a latitude that puts it north of the northern tip of Maine, yet Paris experiences a much warmer climate. What makes this possible is the Gulf Stream, a convection current where warm water from the Gulf of Mexico flows past northern Europe.
What if, during the Medieval Warm Period, a segment of the Gulf Stream had flowed past Greenland? Southern Greenland is at the same latitude as northern Scotland.
iirc there were settlements in Labrador and Newfoundland, too.
You know that line in Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song? “On we sweep with threshing oar?”
Well, they were rowing SUVs.
True story.
I’ve got a technical background such that I could probably still figure out a way to get in on the gravy train.
But then you have to look at yourself in the mirror every morning, and that sort of kills the whole idea, at least for me . . .
I had a slightly different answer to #57, but close. See a couple above.
Yes, the Vikings landed there and set up colonies which they abandoned when the Medieval Warm Period ended and it got cold again.
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