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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:57 pm
by Dan Schultz
bloke wrote: When mammoths are pulled out of areas around/above the Arctic Circle, that tells me that - at least for a time in the past - the earth was likely much warmer than it is now...and without the influence of mankind.
Naw. Them big dumb old beasts just went out for a looong walk, got lost, and froze to death!
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:16 am
by Kevin Hendrick
Yup -- "shifts happen"!
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:26 am
by Alex C
When Eric the Red founded a settlement in Greenland, it was green. Now only a small area of the country is green for a short period each year. Obviously the Viking boats carried enough ozone to affect the North Pole ozone layer and cause the climatic change, it just needs to be proved.
Thinking like this will get you a government grant.
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:06 pm
by iiipopes
Re: Woolly Mammoths in polar regions -- it's not just the shifting of the magnetic poles. It's also plate tectonics:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonic_plate
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:54 pm
by Alex C
iiipopes wrote:Re: Wolly Mammoths in polar regions -- it's not just the shifting of the magnetic poles. It's also plate tectonics:
....and greenhouse gasses! Don't forget greenhouse gasses.