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Post by alancalverd on May 28, 2013 23:30:34 GMT 1
I heard today that some bryophytes (? I was driving at the time - couldn't write it down!) had been regrown after being covered for 400 years by a now-retreated glacier.
Botany isn't the important part of this news item, to my mind (they are known to be a particularly hardy and totipotent species). What is much more interesting is the fact that 400 years ago, they weren't covered by the glacier.
Anthropogenic global warming causing catastrophic melting of polar ice? Nonsense. It's just returning to where it used to be.
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Post by principled on May 29, 2013 10:25:10 GMT 1
Alan, Interesting. Here's the article in Science Daily. Apparently, they were covered by the mini ice-age that occurred between 1550 and 1850. The same ice-age that caused the Thames to freeze. At the moment, it feels like another one is on the way. Heating on and it's almost June! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130528202549.htmP |
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Post by marchesarosa on May 29, 2013 13:45:32 GMT 1
Heating on here, too, principled!
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Post by mrsonde on May 29, 2013 18:57:28 GMT 1
Anthropogenic global warming causing catastrophic melting of polar ice? Nonsense. It's just returning to where it used to be. Melting of polar ice isn't supposed to be the "catastrophic" bit. |
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Post by alancalverd on May 29, 2013 23:57:30 GMT 1
OMG!!! What on earth did homo sapiens do that sucked all the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for 300 years??? Or is there, perhaps, a teeny little flaw in the AGW hypothesis - like, say, a lack of evidence and a lot of hysteria?
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Post by mrsonde on May 30, 2013 7:13:22 GMT 1
We had a series of sunspot minima, of varying lengths. Like the one we're in now, and will be for at least another 30 years.
And hey alan, guess what causally determines that!
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Post by alancalverd on May 30, 2013 9:39:49 GMT 1
Anthropogenic carbon dioxide? Global capitalism? Lack of faith? Anything but nuclear physics, surely.
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