This is gonna be a short one, I think, though I have the potential to ramble on for quite a while. It's about climate change. But it's
not about whether it's real or not. I don't care about that right now. I mean, I'm writing this beside a window that gives me a clear view of the foot of fresh snow outside (which I love, by the way. Not complaining about it yet!).
So what, then, am I wanting to say? This: there are mummified trees in the Arctic Circle. Scratch that,
mummified forests. The logical conclusion is that at one time there were forests up there, meaning no ice. We're talking big trees, here, so the climate was right for large-scale plant growth for a substantial period of time.
Really, that's all I wanted to say. Yah, the polar ice is melting, and the slight increases in temperature and global sea level are wreaking some havoc with ecosystems and weather fronts, but who's to say that's unnatural now? A little threatening to us land mammals, sure. But if there were Arctic forests before, why not again?
photo by IngoEs
So what, then, am I wanting to say? This: there are mummified trees in the Arctic Circle. Scratch that, mummified forests. The logical conclusion is that at one time there were forests up there, meaning no ice. We're talking big trees, here, so the climate was right for large-scale plant growth for a substantial period of time.
Also arctic crocodilians, Jack.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a Cretaceous time, a warmer inland sea stretched north from the Gulf of Mexico.
It wasn’t called that, naturally, ‘Gulf’, or ‘Mexico’. Dinos probably had a tweet for every little thing in the world they saw themselves masters of, tho, I'm guessin'.
i want an arctic crocodilian! i miss my plush crocodilian back in Vic...
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