Politicians Blather About Warming, Guns and Taxes

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Japan recently pledged $100 million in grants to fight global climate change. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world's major leader in the struggle against climate change. The World Conservation Union has recently recognized the work of women from all over the world fighting climate change. We might want to ask whether it's too late to worry about fighting climate change. Let's look at it.

About 65 million years ago, the Earth experienced one of the most rapid and extreme global climate changes recorded in geologic history. The period has been named the "Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum." The ocean was 18 to 27 degrees hotter than it is today. Antarctica, which is today's coldest place on Earth, was home to temperate forests, beech trees and ferns. The Earth had no permanent polar ice caps.

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Politicians Blather About Warming, Guns and Taxes

In the past 65 million years, the Earth's temperature has increased and decreased with no help from mankind. My questions to the anti-climate change...

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