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Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat
An anonymous reader writes "The climate was altered suddenly some 5,200 years ago with severe impacts. Famouse glaciologist professor Lonnie Thompson have found clues that show history repeating itself. Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe. He outlined his fears today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. 'The evidence clearly points back to this point in history and to some event that occurred. It also points to similar changes occurring in today's climate as well,' he said."
New York City will be flooded by seawater, the temperature will plunge at a rate of 10 degrees per second, and people will be transformed into ice statues where they stand. Tokyo will be bombarded with killer hailstones! The polar ice caps will MELT. This sounds like the perfect storyline for a really shitty mov-- oh, right..
You mean...all of the historicals account of a tramatic climate changing event (or was it a flood) might be true???? But that has to be wrong. What do ancient societies know about science, or historical records? ;p
This story is a dupe from 3196 B.C.
i see how it is. i finally get a girlfriend and now the planet's going to freeze over.
thanks a fucking bunch, environment.
Uhmm.. G.W Bush claims that "Global Warming" (henceforth referred to as "G.W") will melt the poles and ....
Whitehouse later retracted the claims when they realized NYC will be under 20 feet of sea water. The Gaia theory has been proposed along with Alaskan ice to fix the issue in concern.God shall call forth another great flood to cleanse the world.
Of course he blames the entire problem on Iraq and the fact that they set fire to oil wells in Kuwait in 1991 leading to a rise in temperature of the Free World. Also Canadians contribute to this problem in no small amount as a comparitive study of houses with central heating in Miami and Tornoto showed.
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There wouldn't have been a problem if the Egyptians hadn't ruined the environment by building all those pyramids. Their per capita consumption of limestone far exceeded that of other human populations, leading to a significant increase in the albedo of the planet, and global cooling. The correlation of climate change with pyramid building is clear proof that it was their fault.
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Given out ancestors are dead already I doubt we can affect whether they get to live in Heaven or Hell now.
Yes, it's our goal to destroy the Earth! My dream is my kids growing up in a US of A paved from coast to coast and having huge CFC generators pollute the atmosphere.
You caught us red-handed, now we can't end all human life!!!!
That proves it. All this quasi-science about the Earth being round (when anyone can see it's flat) is clearly debunked, when a major scientist finds the planet's corners and brings back from each corner samples of its core.
This gives me hope we'll dispense with that space travel hoax soon, too.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Exactly. Thousands and thousands of scientists (professors and otherwise) who have time and again proven global warming to be real and happening have repeatedly, collectively, and deliberately made mistakes in their experiments and calulatinons. In fact, as reported on a recent documentary on TV (forget the channel), there is an evil worldwide (at least Mexican-American-Canadian-British-Swedish-German-F rench-Finnish-Indian-Chinese-liberal) conspiracy against oil and energy companies trying to convince the world that CO2 emissions are bad.
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Oh, wow. Suddenly I have a shred of respect for our country's leaders.
They just aren't going to do anything about it.
Okay, never mind, it's gone now.
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Let's say you're correct. A leap, but let's say it. IT doesn't matter. If global warming is due to a cyclical change, then it's not our fault. That is what this article is saying, no? When faced with facts like this article, you don't even see it. It HAS to be man's fault so Bush can be wrong and your Euro-hip ideals can be right. You are biased and blinded. Oh yeah, and the volcano thing happens true, but hey that gets conservatives off the hook so you couldn't possibly accept it. Try reading something other than propaganda, idiot.
I gotta start burning me some coal...
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
Major climate changes occur on this planet with great frequency.
I would suggest that you can move more than twice as fast as a glacier.Get out of the way and you'll be in no danger.Move cautiously in a southern direction,looking it straight in the eyes.When you get far enough away,RUN! Run to the equator and order a drink with an umbrella.whew.
Saving distraught environmentalists from themselves one doink at a time.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
You beat me to posting this, but it's obviously Planet X! The Sun's long lost brother is coming back to kill us, everyone knew we were a binary star right? Some people also call Planet X by the name "Nibiru"
From Wikipedia:
Nibiru has an orbit around the sun of 3,600 Earth years. It is suggested that current astronomy points to the possibility that Nibiru is a brown dwarf or dark star rather than a planet. This has the implication that our solar system, like the majority in the known universe, is a binary star system; in other words, Earth has two suns with Nibiru being the second and less bright.
According to Sitchin, Nibiru/Marduk's inhabitants called Anunnaki (Ningischzida) survived and afterward came to Earth. Sitchin says some sources speak about the same planet, possibly being a brown dwarf star and still orbiting the Sun with a perihelion passage some 3,600 years ago and assumed orbital period of about 3,600 to 3,760 years or 3,741 years. Sitchin attributes these figures to astronomers of the Maya civilization, but the supposed sources are unfamiliar to Mayanists.
In a recently published book, titled 2012: Appointment With Marduk, Turkish writer/researcher Burak Eldem presents a new theory, suggesting a 3,661 years orbital period for the planet, and he claims a "return date" in the year 2012. According to Eldem's theory, 3,661 is one-seventh of 25,627, which is the total time span of "5 World Ages" according to Mayan Long Count Calendar system. The last orbital passage of Marduk, he adds, was in 1649 BC and caused great catastrophes on earth, including the Thera Eruption.
So there you have it. Planet X is coming, the internet said so. We are all going to die. Look at the bright side though, at least we won't have to watch Episode 3 or code for Longhorn.
A geek with a girlfriend? Are you sure it isn't HELL that's frozen over? :)
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