Maye so, according to the Washington Post. A researcher thumbing through old issues of the WaPo came across this headline that would have made Al Gore soil himself...
"Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."
There's just one problem. The hadline and artiucle were published in November...of 1922!!!!
The 1922 article includes this familiar-sounding passage...
"great masses of ice have now been replaced by moraines of earth and stones," and "at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."
How 'bout that? melting ice, dying seals, disappearing glaciers.
It's weather, folks. It's happened before and it's happening again. The only question you need to ask is why are we hysterical now but not then? Guess back then, people thought it was just weather at work, not evil humans and thei evil cars destroying the planet.
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Too bad you couldn't let us see a copy of the article...Either way, as I've pointed out in the past, these types things can happen. Weather is weird. However, you CAN'T use things like this to degrad the argument of global warming theory. You can do better than this, Alex. Stop being lazy.
i found the article, it was on page 2 of the november 2, 1922 edition of the washington post. i just can't figure out how to copy it to this blog. i hate when that happens. if i can figure out how to do it, i'll post it. anyway, i don't think that anyone ever said that the earth hasn't gone through periods of warming and cooling. and, as i said the other day, i hope we're not going through disastrous global warming. but these past events don't really tell us what will happen.
Well, well, as sombody important once said, "There is nothing new under the sun." I suppose that was before the internet and instant messaging. Hysteria now as opposed to 1922 is exponentially related to the speed of "the internets" rather then the speed of light. I think Pythagorus was wrong on the equal and opposite reaction deal. Humans seem to react at around 10x to the action (or conversly not at all)...guess that Global Warming comes in at either end of the spectrum. That's the best explanation I can come up with. This topic was discussed at length back in 1958 in the third grade. Global Warming provides a much needed breath of fresh air topically over a lot of the political garbage waste. Thanks for taking the time, Alex!
global warming may not be our fault. in fact, nothing may be our fault. we're not responsible for anything!
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/
science/14tier.html_r=1&oref=slogin
Bad science is our fault.
and when we do good science, like stem cell research, we shouldn't let politics interfere.
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