Posted on 02/12/2006 8:49:59 PM PST by presidio9
"Our research doesn't prove that increased CO2 is currently causing global warming, but oxygen isotopic measurements of ancient Earth temperatures suggest that this has caused global warming in Earth's past."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021211084123.htm
You have described the dope growers of Humboldt County perfectly...
The Vikings caused global warming then caused the earth to cool down again. How? Plundering and looting. Setting towns on fire cause global warming. settleing down to count their loot with the pretty maidens they captured caused the earth to cool. We are not doing enough looting. Need to start now. Being the worlds nice guy is going to destroy the earth!
Nice rant, eh?
It wasn't the Vikings so much as their pets. That's right, the kitties. See, cats like to be warm. And cats, as any cat owner knows, control their humans. Even today. And so, though it was long ago in a faraway land, it was done.
Methane?
And anyone who has been in almost any country outside of the USA knows that what you say is the truth.
Maybe it was their diet?
Awesome, but you forgot volcanoes and the generations they kill, lol!
Those damn Minnesota Vikings...I knew it was their fault all along...GO RAIDERS...SAVE US ART SHELL!
All those Viking longboats caused atmospheric changes.
so there you are......it was this warm or warmer 1200 years ago....so what type of SUV's were they driving or did their Viking boats with the dragon heads have big Hemi's in them.
Bullsh_t... they didn't record weather in NYC til 1869.
Well, I agree that spring was early in January, but it was the shortest spring and summer in recorded history.
"consider that the Chinese fleet of the 1420's sailed around Greenland during" Could you please souce this?
The book is called "1421" by Gavin Menzies...the argument is fascinating -- draws upon multiple oddities in the historical record. Perhaps over-reaching in some ways, but certainly interesting reading.
Al Gore discovered Greenland.
The Viking era was about 1000 years ago. The earth is some 4 billion years old. So they are saying this warming trend is the biggest of the last 0.000025% of the earth's history. Wow, that tells us a lot.
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