Show on the fossil find of a bloody huge snake. Interesting show, the part relevant to my title comes in about 43:00. Short version, the evidence suggests the temperature in that part of the world sixty million years ago was a LOT hotter. Average apparently 84 to 93F.
It suggests that 60 million years ago the rain forest of Cerrejon thrived at a very high temperature which, according to some of todays computer models, would kill off its plants. So Cerrejon appears to show that global warming won't necessarily destroy the rain forest.
Hmmm... so the models are once again shown to be full of crap, and- assuming globular warmening was actually happening due to us- the people pointing out that in the past warm periods often showed great growth are right.
Yes, I know, warming of that level would have huge consequences. And we can tell about some of it because it happened before, long before factories and cars and us.
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Ice will be far worse than warming. Jerry Pournell (blog and novels) has much to say on that topic.
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