07-11-2013, 10:03 PM
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Global Warming
Another little snippet from our Scientists I found today:"Global warming could cause turtles to grow as large as cars and see horses shrink to the size of cats, an expert claims.
US scientist Jonathon Bloch says monster-sized creatures existed millions of years ago as Earth's temperatures rose by 6 degrees C.
And Dr. Bloch - who was involved in fossil finds of a 35 ft snake and a 60 million-year-old turtle that could eat crocodiles - said similar conditions could return in "the next couple of hundred years".
What about that then?
08-11-2013, 11:18 AM
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Re: Global Warming
Originally Posted by Mups
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Another little snippet from our Scientists I found today:"Global warming could cause turtles to grow as large as cars and see horses shrink to the size of cats, an expert claims.
US scientist Jonathon Bloch says monster-sized creatures existed millions of years ago as Earth's temperatures rose by 6 degrees C.
And Dr. Bloch - who was involved in fossil finds of a 35 ft snake and a 60 million-year-old turtle that could eat crocodiles - said similar conditions could return in "the next couple of hundred years". What about that then?
Taking that assumption further, does he blame man for global warming or does he use common sense by researching the mass of evidence that suggests that global warming is part of the Earth's natural cycle and has peaked many, many times in the past?
Only a fool would say man's pollution of Earth makes no difference to global warming because it obviously does but is it really accelerating the rise in global temperatures by that much or is it just another peak?
As there are obviously no actual witness-style records from the last peaks in global temperatures on Earth scientists have to take measurements, make assumptions of some results and the resulting forecast for the future will be - er - a guess won't it?! stevmk2
08-11-2013, 11:45 AM
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Re: Global Warming
Originally Posted by Mups
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Another little snippet from our Scientists I found today:"Global warming could cause turtles to grow as large as cars and see horses shrink to the size of cats, an expert claims.
US scientist Jonathon Bloch says monster-sized creatures existed millions of years ago as Earth's temperatures rose by 6 degrees C.
And Dr. Bloch - who was involved in fossil finds of a 35 ft snake and a 60 million-year-old turtle that could eat crocodiles - said similar conditions could return in "the next couple of hundred years".
What about that then?
Meaningless drivel really, the creatures grew that large millions of years ago because conditions on the planet made such creatures sustainable at that time. 60 million years ago mammals were very small creatures at the very beginning of their dominance after the dinosaurs had been wiped out and there were no humans at all for another 55 million years.
He is talking out of his backside to infer that a similar temperature rise would lead to the same result now.
08-11-2013, 11:54 AM
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Re: Global Warming
Originally Posted by Mups
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Another little snippet from our Scientists I found today:"Global warming could cause turtles to grow as large as cars and see horses shrink to the size of cats,
What about that then?
If horses shrink to the size of cats, it'll be a bit of a bummer if we have to go back to manual field ploughing due to to lack of energy for tractors but, on a good note -
- some countries used to use turtle shells as boats so if turtles grow as big as cars, ocean going travel just got opened up to more of us
There's always a positive if you look for it
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