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Thread #87391   Message #1762644
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
18-Jun-06 - 04:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where's the Global Warming
Subject: RE: BS: Where's the Global Warming
Nice rant, Obie. It's accurate in parts

If polar bears were to become extinct because of melting ice flows they would follow woolly mamoths that became extinct because of an earlier global warming.

Climate change alone wasn't sufficient to kill off the Mammoth, and several other large animal species. They had suvived similar changes between glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary( the last 2 million years).
The extra factor at the end of the last Glacial was people hunting them. There have been houses built of mammoth bones found in Eastern Europe, and mammoth skeletons with flint arrowheads in them found in the US. Where it took longer for people to get to them, the mammoths lasted longer.