[Ma3lst0rm]

It is interesting how totally blind the authors of this article are to the implications that follow the discovery of 55 million year old global warming and climate change. I thought only man could screw up the world's climate not that it getting warmer is a bad thing. It is for some bad and others good as are most morally neutral issues. I think that the outcome of an overall more temperate world would be a far more positive change than negative.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Also important to note, there was more C02 in the air during the time of the dinosaurs than there is today.

[Little Pig]

Damn those SUV-driving dinosaurs!

[mtbopfuyn]

Dino farts.

[atomicpossum]

Found written on a cave wall:

"Bush's Fault!"

[DLfromthedesert]

I didn't realize George W. Bush was that old.

[KellyAdmirer]

The huge temperature rise may have occurred within just few thousand years

Oh, spare me....

[JimRed]

All Bush's fault; he didn't invent a time machine and go back and unilaterally sign a Kyoto-type protocol!

[Mike Darancette]

An extraordinary burst of global warming that occurred around 55 million years ago dramatically reversed Earth's pattern of ocean currents, a finding that strengthens modern-day concern about climate change, a study says.

The land masses om earth were really in different places 55 mya

[bkwells]

But, but, but... man was not around... How can this be? I thought only man was responsible for global warming? There were no coal-fired polluting power plants 55 million years ago and no CFC's and no greenhouse gases!! /sarcasm

[WatchYourself]

I always love the "according to scientists" because they rarely agree on anything these days...

My speculation is just as good as theirs.

[xcamel]

Note to self:

Doomed again.

[kingu]

Now if only those dinosaurs had followed the dictates of the Kyoto accord, this would never have happened.

[kajingawd]

"Global warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents"


...and, at that moment, Cape Breton was born...and it was cold.

[Kay Ludlow]

Hmmm. In the article, they attribute the previous warming to underwater volcanic activity. Seems to me I read recently about how there's been a significant increase in underwater volcanic activity the last couple decades. Coincidence???

[xcamel]

Cenozoic map:

[microgood]

Noone knows what the temperature and currents were 55 million years ago. Some do pretend to know, however.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[Designed]

I can't help but wonder how many hundreds of unfounded assumptions the researchers plugged into their calculations to come up with this astounding finding. I mean, they don't even know what the average temperature was a thousand years ago!

[Drammach]

Interesting show on the Little Ice Age on History Channel tonight..

They seem to be doing a pretty straight up presentation, none of that weird "mankind is destroying the planet" stuff..
If you're not already watching, you may be able to catch a second showing later tonight, or TIVO it or something..

[SunkenCiv]

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