Climate Change Science under fire! I am giddy!

[Ev. Duane Williams]

Originally Posted by Timmy

They must be evil atheistic scientists trying to disprove the Bible so they can sin with abandon.

sounds about right! Alright Tim, you're starting to catch on!

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I just saw on NBC last night in Iceland a whole camp set up down under the ice that cut plugs of ice and determine they are over 11,000 years old and they study the layers to determine the temperature changes.

I'm watching this and thinking - why?

Originally Posted by Timmy

They must be evil atheistic scientists trying to disprove the Bible so they can sin with abandon.

Or, it could be that since the earth's climate is continually going through some sort of "Climate Change" understanding the patterns and the effects of the various changes might help us to better plan for our futures.

Leif Erickson grew cereal crops and vegetables in Greenland over 1,000 years ago. Even with all of the awful Global Warming of the Industrial Era, farming in the soil of Greenland is still not doable, though there are those who have constructed raised or "box gardens" which keep the plants up out of the frozen ground itself.

But since the onset of the "Little Ice Age" around 1100 AD no one has been able to reproduce what Leif Erickson did.

[Apocrypha]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Or, it could be that since the earth's climate is continually going through some sort of "Climate Change" understanding the patterns and the effects of the various changes might help us to better plan for our futures.

Leif Erickson grew cereal crops and vegetables in Greenland over 1,000 years ago. Even with all of the awful Global Warming of the Industrial Era, farming in the soil of Greenland is still not doable, though there are those who have constructed raised or "box gardens" which keep the plants up out of the frozen ground itself.

But since the onset of the "Little Ice Age" around 1100 AD no one has been able to reproduce what Leif Erickson did.

If I remember right from the history channel episode about the little ice age whole villages were swallowed up by glaciers as they moved a few feet a month. Also the American rebellion happened right when the little ice age was breaking and General Washington had to put up with some severe temps and those pictures of him crossing the Deleware river with near iceburgs wasn't a artists fancy, it actually looked like that.

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