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To: KLP who wrote (136481)	3/4/2007 1:44:28 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) of 225578

Here's my theory, based on trees that are far from petrified: In my forays into the woods a decade or two ago, I found incense cedar only 20 odd miles south of the Columbia River. A few miles away, sugar pine. Both of these occurrences were some of the northernmost of the species' range. Both were waning in numbers and vigor. In the same vicinity, the northernmost occurrence of a particular kind of bat. If it were just bats, you could argue that things are getting warmer and the bats are moving north. But trees live hundreds of years, and they're not going anywhere fast, but eventually out. So, that to me indicates near term cooling, at least in the last 100 years or so. I also found tiny little seams of coal in the rocks in this same general area. Those were laid down in the carboniferous eras of eons ago, certainly warmer than today. In the same area I found water washed gravel plastered on the side of a mountain. No doubt this was deposited by rivers running alongside melting glaciers that were thousands of feet thick. There wasn't any people at all here then. Nature will grind everything away and rebuild it, no matter what man does.

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