Topper wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:39 pm
Ten years lol
How did those corals get atop the Alps and the Rockies? How were the fjords you pine for, carved? Hmm, we did have couple of severe fire years. The fires were concentrated in areas devastated to past couple of decades by endemic pine beetle infestations. That created a forest floor littered with fuel. Aboriginals in the area claim it was a grassland a century ago.
Corals on top of rockies and alps? OK, that's a much longer time frame, we're talking tetonic plates shifting etc, so we're in millions of years.
The fiords were designed by Slartibartfast, who even got an award for them. Haven't you read THHGTTG?
The fires were concentrated in areas devastated to past couple of decades by endemic pine beetle infestations?
Hmmm... Greece, Portugal, Siberia, Aistralia, Amazon rain forest? Those pine beetles sure get around a lot.....
But you must have noted it's getting warmer.
Over the past seven decades, the number of extreme heat days in Europe has steadily increased, while the number of extreme cold days has decreased, according to new research. Alarmingly, this trend is happening at rates faster than those proposed by climate models.
For most Europeans, this new study will hardly come as a surprise. This summer, for example, temperatures in southern France reached a record 46 degrees Celsius (114.8 degrees Fahrenheit), with similar temperature extremes happening at other locations on the continent.
Indeed, Europe is getting progressively hotter, and the data bears this out. What’s disturbing, however, and as new research published today in Geophysical Research Letters points out, this warming trend is occurring faster than the projections churned out by most European climate models. And as the new paper also notes, the observed increases in temperatures “cannot be explained by internal variability.” In other words, this warming trend is the result of human-caused climate change.
https://earther.gizmodo.com/europe-is-w ... 1837669154
As for the glaciers...
The world's glaciers are shrinking five times faster now than they were in the 1960s. Their melt is accelerating due to global warming, and adding more water to already rising seas, the study found.
"Over 30 years suddenly almost all regions started losing mass at the same time,'' said lead author Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich. "That's clearly climate change if you look at the global picture.''
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/ ... er-thought
Ötzi, the ice man, is an example of how glaciers are disappearing. He died in the Alps some 5300 years ago, and was shortly thereafter covered by snow and ice. He remained covered by that snow and ice until it thawed away in 1991 and he was discovered by some mountain climbers.
Thanks to these coincidences, we have learnt a lot of copper age/late neolithic Europe, as we for the first time have clothes, a rucksack, a quiver, etc from this long ago. Normally you don't find a lot more than stones and bones from that time period.
If it weren't for glaciers first having expanded over his dead body, and then (thanks to global warming) in recent years retracted, we would not have received this time capsule from the late stone age, which has revolutionised what we know of that era.
https://donsmaps.com/otzi.html
