“Antarctica has sat at much the same latitude for the last hundred million years. But during the Cretaceous it enjoyed a warmer, lusher climate, similar to that of the U.S. Pacific Northwest today. (The Cretaceous period started 144 million years ago and ended 65 million years ago.)”
I guess I'm thinking of earlier years. Yes - your observations make sense to most of us that realize that the earth has been changing for a long, long time.
(Although didn't the Model T come out in the late Cretaceous, and is believed to have killed all the dinosaurs?)
Exactly. Their whole argument seems to be focused on the dire things that will happen to coastal areas and islands being flooded.
Well, sure, ok.
But you're gaining all this lush forest in the polar areas that are almost biological deserts now. And the Great basin of the US will go from an arid scrub desert to a shallow inland sea. Which is one of the most productive marine ecosystems--like a Mediterranean in the Western Hemisphere.
It's not doom and gloom. Just--different.