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One of the last shipments received from a bone bed in a thawing permafrost marsh in Northern Alaska, the picture shows two (2) mammoth tusks embedded in a tough matrix of ancient dried mud, plant material, and assorted bone fragments. (Note: Nope, no climate change here… nothing to look at… however, the dig team did mention the horrible smell of methane permeating the entire area… methane? naw…. no worries… that gas isn’t as bad as CO2 in provoking climate havoc is it?!?)
Also called the “tundra mammoth,” mammoths roamed cold, dry grasslands, open tundra, and steppes (treeless plains) millions of years after, what is commonly thought of as dinosaurs, went extinct (I don’t have the time to delve into specifics regarding the avian-dino theory here… I know you’re disappointed). This was during the Pleistocene epoch: 1.8 MYA to 11,550 years ago. Evidence tells us they were about ten feet (3 m) tall, measured up to 11 feet (3.5 m) long, and weighed around 10,000 pounds (about 4,536 kg). From morphologic studies of their bones, mammoths are thought to have lived to be about 60 to 80 years old. Just like modern-day elephants, they died when their last set of teeth wore away and they could no longer chew their food.
Mammoths are thought to have become extinct approximately at the end of the last Ice Age (~12,000 years ago) – with one exception that most people aren’t aware of. A separate wooly mammoth population is believed to have lived on Wrangel Island – located in the Arctic Ocean between the Chukchi and East Siberian seas – until approximately 1,700 B.C. These wooly mammoths were smaller – only about 6 feet (2 m) tall which speaks to successful evolutionary adaptive strategies taking hold.
The suspected reasons for mammoth extinction include both man and nature (I contend a combination of both took there toll).
Is the argument of global climate change here related directly to the methane level?
cascading event… CO2 causing a subtle 1 or 2 degree shift that magnifies the heating around the arctic bands which thaws the permafrost that releases thousands upon thousands of years of sequestered methane that increases the 1 or 2 degree shift (by theoretically) an order of magnitude that then breaks down most of the world’s ice reserves and causes a systemic destabilization of the heterogeneous systems we’d normal maintain would limit any man-made impact to the world we live in.
but all of this is based upon a (evidently very flimsy) theory of increasing temperatures which i happened to just see disputed on a well-known conservative MSM channel. i also saw a crowd participant holding a handmade sign that read “only GOD can impact the environment”.
ummm… ok?!? now what?
You NEED to post that MSM thing you saw.
I watched a show a few years back that talked about the real danger being the Methane trapped under the Siberian Ice being released if the melt increases.
it was on fox… cable tv.
today was one of the rare afternoons that i had a tv on (not much for television, especially during the day). i believe it was an ad for an upcoming show (talking head show… not sure of the name but it is on fox… think tonight or tomorrow).