Thursday, December 16, 2010

OOPS!!

UPDATE: 2-million year old 'mummy-trees' reveal harsh climate

This is precious:
"His group's discovery in Ellesmere Island National Park represents the northernmost mummified forest site in Canada."
Do you folks know how far north Ellesmere Island is???
"The site sits in an upper Arctic region that changed to a scrubby, treeless landscape about 2 million years ago, and so researchers know the mummified trees must be at least that old. There are also no signs of the previously common Metasequoia redwood trees that vanished in the area around 10 million years ago, which gives the tree mummies an upper age limit."
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Mumified forest discovered in Arctic Circle

Explain that one, AGW freaks.

You still haven't properly accounted for your spin of this one, short of considering it weird.

Weirdos.

I wonder how many of you will show up for the next chapter of Copenhagen-Cancun? Canada should live up to its reputation and boycott the thing, or better yet, show up with bottled water from freshly melted glaciers - with bark in it.

In other news, this is cool:

Winter solstice to coincide with lunar eclipse for the first time in 456 years.

How much do you want to bet there will be heavy cloud cover caused by all those melting glaciers and ice caps?

Trivia moment: The last time this happened, Sir Walter Raleigh was two years old - and after nine days on the throne, Lady Jane Grey was executed. I have a book that records important events that took place each year/era for the past seven millenia. I promise none of those Arctic trees were used to produce the paper upon which it was printed. /snark

Science has come a long way since then, until climate change freaks took over. Woe betide Western Civilization and save us from these progressives against progress.

I've written about the Canadian Arctic before, but this is my all time favourite. Note the passage quoted from explorer Samuel Hearne's journal.
""I have observed during my several journeys in those parts that all the way to the north of Seal River the edge of the wood is faced with old withered stumps, and trees which have been flown (sic) down by the wind….Those blasted trees are found in some parts extend to a distance of twenty miles from the living woods, and detached patches of them are much farther off; which is proof that the cold has been increasing in these parts for some ages. Indeed some of the older Northern Indians have assured me that they have heard their fathers and grandfathers say, they remembered the greatest part of those places where the trees are now blasted and dead, in a flourishing state.""
Damn it. Next thing you know, those AGW freaks will be out to destroy the Hudson's Bay Company archives.

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