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Dan Schultz
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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! ;-)
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Yup -- "shifts happen"! :oops:
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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.

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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
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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.
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