November 30, 2004
IF IT WERE A COMPUTER GAME YOU'D SEE THE DESIGN:
In Arctic history, warm water (Andrew C. Revkin, November 30, 2004, The New York Times)
The ice-cloaked Arctic Ocean apparently was once a warm, biologically brewing basin so rich in sinking organic material that some scientists examining fresh evidence pulled from a submerged ridge near the North Pole say the seabed may now hold significant oil and gas deposits.
So we had to expend enough carbon into the atmosphere to create sufficient warming for vast new carbon sources to be revealed to us? Posted by Orrin Judd at November 30, 2004 9:01 AM
Comments
I don't share your optimism that we can melt the Arctic ice, oj. But it's worth trying!
Posted by: pj at November 30, 2004 10:29 AMPJ;
It's not that hard. The issue was examined back in the 70's when the large scale climate catastrophe was another Ice Age.
OJ;
Of course the Artic was once warm and biologically active. Check out any history of continental drift. The very existence of polar ice caps is a relatively recent phenomenon as such things go, enabled only by the current arrangement of the continents (one on the South Pole and others ringing the North Pole).
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at November 30, 2004 11:56 AM