Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical

[Rhino]

Scientists Say Arctic Once Was Tropical

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

WASHINGTON — Scientists have found what might have been the ideal ancient vacation hotspot with a 74-degree Fahrenheit average temperature, alligator ancestors and palm trees. It's smack in the middle of the Arctic.

First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show.

The scientists say their findings are a glimpse backward into a much warmer-than-thought polar region heated by run-amok greenhouse gases that came about naturally.

Skeptics of man-made causes of global warming have nothing to rejoice over, however. The researchers say their studies appearing in Thursday's issue of Nature also offer a peak at just how bad conditions can get.

"It probably was (a tropical paradise) but the mosquitoes were probably the size of your head," said Yale geology professor Mark Pagani, a study co-author.

And what a watery, swampy world it must have been.

"Imagine a world where there are dense sequoia trees and cypress trees like in Florida that ring the Arctic Ocean," said Pagani, a member of the multinational Arctic Coring Expedition that conducted the research.........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197680,00.html

[markus3622]

Interesting

[sunsettommy]

Where was the "Artic" located 55 million years ago?

[Rhino]

Where was the "Artic" located 55 million years ago?Wait! I know this one! it was on Double Jeopardy last week!

Atlantis?

[DeclinetoState]

Where was the "Artic" located 55 million years ago?

Ask Aussie.

Topic also posted here (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36192).

[Rhino]

Topic also posted here (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36192).That's what I get for not reading all the forums. Sorry.

[Charity]

I imagine in the days before the flood the whole earth was a tropical paradise.

[sunsettommy]

The ARTIC was further south at the time.It was during a warm period warm enough that even the south pole had little ice on it.Despite being at the south pole area.

http://www.scotese.com/lateeoc1.htm

This has been known for years already so the "new study" is just an addition.

Antartica once had swamps and forests on it too.

[DoctorDoom]

All this being true, what were the tropics like? And how could there be "run-amok greenhouse gases that came about naturally"? Everybody KNOWS that man is the cause of global warming. Say it ain't so, Joe!

I have it ... the dinos drove SUVs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[Charity]

LOL

[DesertFox]

Great site, Tommy.

[Rhino]

I have it ... the dinos drove SUVs. Yeah, that's the ticket.And they didn't wear seatbelts. GASP!!!

[Borgia]

I imagine in the days before the flood the whole earth was a tropical paradise.

What flood?

[DeclinetoState]

What flood?

One that Bush caused, undoubtedly.

[Borgia]

One that Bush caused, undoubtedly.

No.................................Cheney caused it in order to help out his Halliburton pals with fat new govt contracts. Kidding! :)

[Rhino]

Then one day he was shootin at some food...
And up through the ground came a bubblin water?

[Opje]

Just about every landmass on Earth has been tropical at one point or another. I don't really see the interest or pertinence of this article.

[Rhino]

History, geography, climatology, etc. Whatever.

[sunsettommy]

Just about every landmass on Earth has been tropical at one point or another. I don't really see the interest or pertinence of this article.

The point of the article is to gain knowledge of the past.There are people who want to know.

It is curiosity.

That is why I posted the link of Earths Geologic past.

[Betrayed]

The arctic isn't even mostly a landmass though. It's just frozen ocean and parts of Northern Canada, Russia, and Europe.

And this shouldn't surprise anyone. All the tectonic plates were located towards the equator before they were able to shift and move around. According to what we know about weather, the entire continent should of been tropical considering it was getting hit the most by the sun, compared to the north and south poles of earth where the oceans probably should have been frozen.

[sunsettommy]

The arctic isn't even mostly a landmass though. It's just frozen ocean and parts of Northern Canada, Russia, and Europe.

And this shouldn't surprise anyone. All the tectonic plates were located towards the equator before they were able to shift and move around. According to what we know about weather, the entire continent should of been tropical considering it was getting hit the most by the sun, compared to the north and south poles of earth where the oceans probably should have been frozen.

The "Artic" at times were free of ice.

There were times Antartica was free of ice despite being near the southern pole region.

I provided a link in this thread about it.

[Betrayed]

Antartica is a continent, correct? Like as in actual land?

[sunsettommy]

Antartica is a continent, correct? Like as in actual land?

Yes,

Why the question?