Yes :) There's a theory that that is exactly what happened - deciduous trees originally evolved in polar regions during the Cretaceous (when the...
Hi Cat, Yes, I've known Andre for a good while actually - since his days at AR. He posts a lot on my weather forum nowadays too :) I've not...
But the maximum extend of glacial advance in the Pyrenees occured 30,000 years ago ;) www.ipe.csic.es/limnogeologia/Articulospdf/JQS2003.pdf A...
Effectively what they already do in Iceland. There was talk when I was at school in the late 70s/early 80s of doing this in Cornwall - there's a...
Trouble is, that'd be like getting a 5 year old to carry out major brain surgery and a heart transplant at the same time...... In other words we...
If Yellowstone erupts then those of us in the UK and Europe should grab our winter woolies 'cos it'll be a tad chilly for a few years till the...
And, more importantly, drier :)
Much much warmer? I thought the evidence pointed to summers being just slighty warmer ;)
Scenario 1:- emigrate to Antarctica. I hate hot weather! Scenario 2:- break out the champagne - it might actually snow in England again! But...
If - as per your quote - Siberia was 4c colder during the LGM then doesn't that suggest it was at that time closer to the pole than now? And then...
Hasn't happened yet - and there have been some pretty big meteorite impacts over the past 4,000,000,000 years.....
Well trees can - and do - grow within the arctic circle..... But I'm no biologist to know whether it's just climate or also the length of darkness...
vslayer: try looking at this site - has maps and lots of other details about 'Mega'.
Not sure if you;ve seen this Andre, but looks like we may soon have our answers :)...
Well the same really applies throughout Earth's history: if the climate is chaotic now, has it always been so? Personally I think chaos is a sympton...
One of the positive feedbacks facing us today is the release of methane from the Siberian/Alaskan permafrost - which wouldn't have existed during the...
Maybe it's because of the El Nino that occurred in 2002/3 - the one the media conveniently ignores..... Maybe it's because of lots of things....
No, DNA research can only tell us that there was a reduction in the world population of not so hairy homo sapiens at that time...... We don't have...
From your account, Hideki, I'd say you definitely saw a classic example of ball lightning :) No question it exists, the question is exactly what it...
Looks like Ivan will make landfall to the east of New Orleans. Even so, with a large tidal surge and heavy rain we can expect very serious flooding....
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