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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Warming -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: teevee who wrote (148)	6/23/2008 6:20:25 PM
From: russet	Respond to of 185

More and more scientists are coming out of the closet with similar thinking. Man grows up a bit and starts looking at the weather for a few decades and now some of the weak thinkers have decided man is causing large scale weather changes. Meanwhile a pile of bottom dwelling blood suckers take advantage of the weak minded and sell all sorts of products and services to fix and study global warming that has been going on for 15 millenia while man huddled in caves blowing farts and burning deadwood and dried moss. I'm reminded of Barnum,..or was it Bailey,...and you know, "sucker born every minute". Watched a archeology special discussing current DNA testing of North American and even South American natives and recent digs occuring in several American states finding european cave man tools in soil layers below 10000 years in date. They're suggesting Europeans from France and Spain followed an Atlantic ice bridge to North America during the last ice age hunting seals and other game. Apparently recent computer modeling has suggested the Atlantic would have been partly frozen to latitudes near the Mediterranean right across to the Grand Banks east of NFLD which would have been above sea level at that time as the sea was several hundred feet below current levels as much water was tied up in glaciers. As American archeologists dig deeper, new things are being found. In any event, 15000 years ago things were cold and sea levels were vastly below where they are now and there was a crapload of ice everywhere. 2 km high mountains of ice have melted since then and a little bit of ice remains in a few cold places, sea levels are much higher and it's a lot warmer. Humans adapted,...even the weak minded live on. ************************************************ livescience.com First Americans May Have Been European By Bjorn Carey, LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 19 February 2006 08:16 pm ET ST. LOUIS—The first humans to spread across North America may have been seal hunters from France and Spain. This runs counter to the long-held belief that the first human entry into the Americas was a crossing of a land-ice bridge that spanned the Bering Strait about 13,500 years ago. The new thinking was outlined here Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The tools don’t match Recent studies have suggested that the glaciers that helped form the bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska began receding around 17,000 to 13,000 years ago, leaving very little chance that people walked from one continent to the other. Also, when archaeologist Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution places American spearheads, called Clovis points, side-by-side with Siberian points, he sees a divergence of many characteristics. Instead, Stanford said today, Clovis points match up much closer with Solutrean style tools, which researchers date to about 19,000 years ago. This suggests that the American people making Clovis points made Solutrean points before that. There’s just one problem with this hypothesis—Solutrean toolmakers lived in France and Spain. Scientists know of no land-ice bridge that spanned that entire gap. The lost hunting party Stanford has an idea for how humans crossed the Atlantic, though—boats. Art from that era indicates that Solutrean populations in northern Spain were hunting marine animals, such as seals, walrus, and tuna. They may have even made their way into the floating ice chunks that unite immense harp seal populations in Canada and Europe each year. Four million seals, Stanford said, would look like a pretty good meal to hungry European hunters, who might have ventured into the ice flows much the same way that the Inuit in Alaska and Greenland do today. Inuit use large, open hunting boats constructed from animal skins for longer trips or big hunts. These boats, called umiaq, can hold a dozen adults, as well as several children, dead seals or walruses, and even dog-sled teams. Inuit have been building these boats for thousands of years, and Stanford believes that Solutrean people may have used a similar design. It’s possible that some groups of these hunters ventured out as far as Iceland, where they may have gotten caught up in the prevailing currents and were carried to North America. “You get three boats loaded up like this and you would have a viable population,” Stanford said. “You could actually get a whole bunch of people washing up on Nova Scotia.” Some scientists believe that the Solutrean peoples were responsible for much of the cave art in Europe. Opponents of Stanford’s work ask why, then, would these people stop producing art once they made it to North America? “I don’t know,” Stanford said. “But you’re looking at a long distance inland, 100 miles or so, before they would get to caves to do art in.”