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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