Sagan was a heavy dope smoker, but I doubt that even crack-cocaine meth addiction could produce thinking as delusional as Science Magazine is experiencing.
Did Melting Antarctic Permafrost Drive Ancient Global Warming? by Richard A. Kerr on 4 April 2012, 5:31 PM
Fifty-five million years ago, the world abruptly warmed by a scorching 5 degrees Celsius, the oceans turned acidic, and life ran a gantlet of extinction. Sound familiar? That was the closest nature ever came to foreshadowing the fossil-fuel-fed warming that is just getting underway now. But for 15 years, climate scientists have puzzled over how that ancient global warming could have happened. Now a group of researchers is offering a new explanation: The needed greenhouse gases could have gushed from thawing permafrost on an ice-free Antarctica.
Did Melting Antarctic Permafrost Drive Ancient Global Warming? – ScienceNOW
Sound familiar???? WTF is he talking about?
Satellites show 2012 temperatures below normal, and temperatures on the Antarctic Ice Sheet are -90F. It would have to warm up 122 degrees to start melting.
Antarctica : Weather Underground
The climate science community has completely lost the plot of reality. Like a cancer, their sole purpose for existence is to grow and kill everything around them.
Penguin farts did it…
Many climatologists love to speculate about what might have happened fifty-five million years ago. Because we’ll never know for sure, they’ll never be proved wrong. Would be nice to see less speculation and more research work on claims that are falsifiable, although I realise that is not fashionable in this field at the moment.
Did anybody catch this excerpt from the above link:
“Somehow, some sort of carbon-rich deposit had to release several trillion tons of carbon over a few millennia in the form of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane.”
So, the scientists aren’t going to look for any other reasons (sun, cosmic rays, etc) for the warming? Sounds like their minds are already set to look for nothing but carbon caused warming.
They do kill everything, including sucking funds away from worthy grants proposals that have a scientific basis. These clowns are not funny. I would propose that in the new US budget, all NIH, NSF, DOE and other funding should be cut 30-50% for one year as punishment for funding all these warm-earther, find-the-extraterrestrial, don’t eat meat, criminals. If they still have funding for these projects, cut another 30-50% the next year. We should do this anyway, since government funded R&D has been shown to drive about 3% of innovation.
OOPS, forgot the /b marker after the word “do”.
Science Magazine? Seriously? Typically wouldn’t a story like this just be shouted out from a ledge until the suicide prevention mediator arrived?
In all fairness I did learn something important from this story — PERMAfrost has been sorely misdefined.
I’m just a little curious, how exactly did the “Permafrost” melt to begin with? Seems to me it would have had to be warm first, wouldn’t it?