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Global warming 500m years ago 'led to the start of the human race'
Sky News ^ | May 9, 2018

Posted on 05/10/2018 6:07:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming during a "greenhouse interval" ultimately led to the start of the human race, scientists believe.

New research suggests that sea temperatures of around 25C (77F) and a lack of permanent polar ice sheets fuelled an explosion of species diversity that eventually led to the human race.

Scientists made the discovery while looking for clues in tiny fossil shells in blocks of Shropshire limestone thought to be around 510 million years old.

The timeframe is referred to as the Cambrian explosion, when representatives of all the major animal groups first appeared.

The surge in diversity allowed life to evolve into a multitude of complex forms, including fish, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Scientists previously thought the Cambrian explosion must have been fuelled by warm temperatures, but the evidence has been lacking so far.

This new findings suggest it was a "greenhouse interval" when high levels of carbon dioxide filled the atmosphere and temperatures soared.

The findings appear in the journal Science Advances.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; god; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

According to my calculations, it started 499,743,339 years ago. Where the heck does this bozo get get off saying 500?
Where’s my grant?


21 posted on 05/10/2018 6:58:43 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: Joe Brower

Virgins were more plentiful for volcanic sacrifice.


22 posted on 05/10/2018 7:00:52 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Moonman62; All

“...and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space because there’s bugger all down here on Earth”—Monty Python, Galaxy Song

The glaciers melted to give us the world we have now and I know of no factory or car pollution during the ice age to cause such global warming..

Gore predicted global warming would melt the polar ice caps and the ocean rise would create great destruction.I live 2 blocks from the ocean and have noted no such increase.Once in awhile there’s flooding in various places but that’s not anthropogenic global warming.

It’s _the weather_ and we little fleas on the face of the earth are not to blame.


23 posted on 05/10/2018 7:06:54 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

(The ice caps were to have melted by 2013)


24 posted on 05/10/2018 7:07:54 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More hilarity from the dumba$$es.


25 posted on 05/10/2018 7:10:19 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Red Badger

Yes, more gore bull warming please!


26 posted on 05/10/2018 7:11:45 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: raccoonradio

They are building luxury high rises right on the beach as fast as they can not too far from where I am. One of them put in an underground garage.


27 posted on 05/10/2018 7:17:49 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can someone please tell me what is the correct temperature for the earth?


28 posted on 05/10/2018 7:26:23 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is wonderful news. Let’s all get in our gas guzzlers and pump out more CO2 and ramp up global warming and start a new Cambrian explosion. Man could sure use more evolution - about time we get a new and improved model.


29 posted on 05/10/2018 7:57:37 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
when high levels of carbon dioxide filled the atmosphere and temperatures soared.

See!! CO2 bad! or was it good?

30 posted on 05/10/2018 7:59:52 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for a new Pope)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What did they use to collect the data 500 million years ago?


31 posted on 05/10/2018 8:00:04 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: tbw2

Don’t Luddite Get You Down

We’ll have our global warming,
it’s gonna be the rage.
The benefits are forming
to stall the next ice age.

But, hark, what muffled grousing
the transom overflows,
as climate change arouses
funky festooned foes.

It’s a cascade of excresence
to make mankind regress
to living like a peasant
while using less and less.

Crank up the moth-balled factories
and turn the A/C down.
Build nuclear reactors
to light your life and town.


32 posted on 05/10/2018 12:36:35 PM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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