Re: [NF] Is it cold or hot? global warming data

Author: Paul McNett

Posted: 2007-12-12 at 17:06:42

John Weller wrote:

> It has been getting warmer for several thousand years! About 10,000 years

> ago you could walk from England to France and Germany because of all the

> water locked up in the ice caps. Five hundred years ago you could roast an

> ox on the frozen River Thames in Winter. Thirty thousand years ago lions

> and hippos roamed England.

And just over 25 years ago the Arctic ice cap was larger by the size of

about half the contiguous US states.

Paul

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