Mummified Forest Found on Treeless Arctic IslandH
He won`t give you nothing but b.s. as an answer.Here's my question for Lefty:
You understand the question revealed that you're not very smart, right?
So, why did you think that question wasn't retarded? Because it was.When are you going to march in the streets to protest Beer Bubbles and demand Americans drink Flat Beer, Flat Sodas, Flat Champagne, Eat Flat Bread, and demand the banning of all cheese, cake, yogurts and other foods with active cultures or that require CO2 as part of the process of their being made?
All those things you listed are insignificant CO2 sources. Nobody except you denier cranks have ever demanded an end to all CO2 emissions, and nobody knows why you make such stupid demands.
I'm waiting for your explanation of this.
Scientists have found something about the North Pole that could send a shiver down Santa's spine: It used to be downright balmy.
In fact, 55 million years ago the Arctic was once a lot like Miami, with an average temperature of 74 degrees, alligator ancestors and palm trees, scientists say.
Study: North Pole Once Was Tropical
I`ve been up there myself and posted pictures of stumps that are what was remaining of a huge forest of equally huge trees that have been sheared off by the glaciers that killed them later.
They are all along the Nares Straight both on the Ellesmere Island side and on the Greenland coast.
An ancient mummified forest, complete with well-preserved logs, leaves, and seedpods, has been discovered deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists say.
The dry, frigid site is now surrounded by glaciers and is completely treeless, except for a few bonsai-size dwarf trees. (See Arctic aerial pictures.)
The forest was discovered recently by a research team who'd heard a surprising story from rangers in Quttinirpaaq National Park. The park is located on Ellesmere Island (see map), one of the world's northernmost landmasses.
The rangers had come across wood scattered on the ground from much larger trees than the few dwarfs currently in the area, including logs that were several feet long.
"Walking through the area, they're everywhere," said Joel Barker, an environmental scientist at Ohio State University who's leading a study of the mummified forest. "You'd have trouble not tripping over them."
The park rangers "had no idea what they were," but Barker suspected they must be millions of years old.
When Barker and colleagues found where the scattered logs were coming from—a slope that had been eroded by a river—they dug in and found many more logs, as well as leaves and seedpods.
"When we started pulling leaves out of the soil, that was surreal, to know that it's millions of years old and that you can hold it in your hand," Barker said at an annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco earlier this week.
Ecosystem on the Edge?
The mummified trees were likely preserved so long because they were buried quickly by landslides and thus protected from air and water, which hastens decomposition.
Not by glaciers, but by landslides. The glaciers came later, after all the remaining trees had died.