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2021-03-17 Science & Technology
Stunning scientific revelation?
[American Thinker] "Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice" trumpeted the Science Daily website headline. Underneath, in bold, readers were informed that, "Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years." Which, the site then claimed, is smoking-gun evidence that the arctic ice sheets are "highly vulnerable to a warming climate."

Text of the article further enlightened those of us with inquiring minds, reading:
"Scientists found frozen plant fossils, preserved under a mile of ice on Greenland. The discovery helps confirm a new and troubling understanding that the Greenland Ice Sheet has melted entirely during recent warm periods in Earth's history -- like the one we are now creating with human-caused climate change. The new study provides strong evidence that Greenland is more sensitive to climate change than previously understood -- and at risk of irreversibly melting." (Emphases mine.)

All of us would-be scientists know ice melts when it gets warmer, but the Science Daily website drew exactly the wrong conclusions from the "stunning" discovery. How can the fact that the ice sheet once melted away entirely, subsequently regenerated, and is still around today...be proof that it is at risk of irreversibly melting??!
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-17 05:26|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 (Gets popcorn)....Oooooh, this explanation is gonna be good....

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-03-17 05:35||   2021-03-17 05:35|| Front Page Top

#2 

Greenland = Cocktail Ice = Get it while you can !

Posted by Bob Pelosi the Illegitimate Son6621 2021-03-17 05:38||   2021-03-17 05:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Calling William Dyer.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-17 12:13||   2021-03-17 12:13|| Front Page Top

#4 

Its after 5, time 4

Posted by Spuddler Gravidity1353 2021-03-17 17:10||   2021-03-17 17:10|| Front Page Top

#5 
Wood B Better with Greenland Ice, but atleast the Gin has Conifer.
Posted by Spuddler Gravidity1353 2021-03-17 17:13||   2021-03-17 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 "Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years."

We can rule out industrialization and human contributions as causes to warming millions of years ago.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-17 17:58||   2021-03-17 17:58|| Front Page Top

#7 
Yeah, I enjoy the absolute precision of these 'scientists' too, a million here, a million there, pretty soon it adds up to 'real science' and 'Stunning Revelations'.
Posted by Thing Gleans6216 2021-03-17 18:05||   2021-03-17 18:05|| Front Page Top

#8 

Hey Spuddler, pour me one, will you its St.Paddy's Day and all. That drink looks good.
Posted by Thing Gleans6216 2021-03-17 18:09||   2021-03-17 18:09|| Front Page Top

#9 

Poured, prepped and on the deck Thing,

Salute -

May You be in Heaven an Hour,
before the Devil knows
You're Dead !
Posted by Spuddler Gravidity1353 2021-03-17 18:17||   2021-03-17 18:17|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Speaking of which... sort of... yesterday was Pat Moynihan's birthday. Right behind Joe on the "people I wish would weigh in today" list.
Posted by Glumble Shimp3262 2021-03-17 20:42||   2021-03-17 20:42|| Front Page Top

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