Why, in just 42 years of evil man capitalism-caused global warming and CO2 emissions, the size of the horse has gone from this:
to this:
Posted on 03/02/2012 9:03:13 AM PST by null and void
How do they know which is the cause and which is the effect?
Carbon Dioxide’s fault?
How does that correlate to temperature again? Oh yea. The consensus thing.
The whole study (if that’s what they call it) was based on a premise that is theorized at best and fictional at worst.
Guess who will now peer review this and announce that humans will start to shrink in the years to come, nevermind the history of human evolution over the past 100 years.
The article has a very misleading title. The horse shrunk from Big-House-Cat size to Average-House-Cat size, a weight reduction of 30%.
As written, it gives one the impression that you go from a Belgian to an Eohippus or house cat size due to global warming (I’m sure the editor had no such bias).
Animal Kingdom Weirdness?
“I joke about this all the time — we’re going to be walking around three feet tall if we keep going the way we’re going,” said Gingerich, a researcher at the University of Michigan and director of its Museum of Paleontology. “Maybe that’s not all bad and, if that’s the worst it gets, it will be fine. You can either adapt, or you go extinct, or you can move, and there’s not a lot of place to move anymore, so I think it’s a matter of adaptation and becoming smaller.”
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It is really getting difficult to keep a polite dispositon when dealing with people who are this idiotic. This man actually thinks that human progress, capitalism, and propserity will drive us to being three feet tall. He does not deserve even any respect at all but deserves contempt. He is driven by upholding political lies and that is all. He deserves ridicule and no respect. He is dangerous given that he holds a position that should be respected and then pushes such lies.
Obviously, this is Bush’s fault.
Yes, if I recall correctly, the so called horse they are talking about is not related to the horse of today. That little thing died out, so you can make up any silly story why. But the main reason was it was slower that the animal that ate it.
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If this is true, my great grandkids will be the size of North Koreans.
Why, in just 42 years of evil man capitalism-caused global warming and CO2 emissions, the size of the horse has gone from this:
to this:
So Clydesdale horses used to be bigger?
And North Koreans will be the size of pygmies.
And pygmies will be the size of..... uh....something.
Mice?
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If the story was true, it isn’t so.
I’m confused. They say horses get smaller due to rising temperatures, then say that horses started off small and got bigger.
I thought cold water caused shrinkage.
Even if these alarmists were correct in their conclusions, so what!
Smaller mammals means less consumption. Adaptation is natural and evolutionary. Isn’t this what they wanted from us?
Yes, this might be a good candidate...
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