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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  6/24/2008 12:48 PM,Gene GeRue wrote:
> "The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the
> last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike
> in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before
> abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. Startlingly, the
> Greenland ice core evidence showed that a massive "reorganization" of
> atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each
> temperature spurt, with each reorganization taking just one or two
> years, said the study authors."
>
> Keep in mind, this was some years before eighteen wheelers and coal-
> fired plants. Probably those darned whales splashing around in the
> North Atlantic. Or . . . ?
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080619142112.htm

How little we really know.



Rob
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