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Re: Sea level has risen no less than 3 meters during past 6500 years - Rennie |
Great "warm" story, Steve........ahahahaha.....AHAHAHAHA.........
So, global warming began after the last ice age and hence the
sea level rose, ever-since.....wow...heavy...uptown, big time.
But the kicker is that only in the last few years, at a gathering
called Kydioto, a gargantuan con was conjured up, cooked up,
and poured onto a plagued humankind by a collection of miserably
greedy enviro turds who were and still are figuring out how to
cash in on this vanishing land grab by the sea. New Permit charges,
more Userfees and higher Enviro surtaxes will hardly hold the sea
back, but it will produce a few very fat and rich green shits......and
all the little green idiots, being the unpaid enablers and facilitators
for this malfeasant con will cheer in unison....ahahahaha...Take care
Steve, and watch out, the enviros are still coughing up green loogies.
ahahahaha........ahahahanson
"Steve Schulin" <steve.schulin@nuclear.com> wrote in message
news:steve.schulin-BFCE6D.11325609092004@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
Source: Vicky Collins (Glasgow Herald environment correspondent),
"Sunken forest found after 6500 years; Orkney trees evidence discovered
under beach", The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), September 9, 2004, p. 14
It has all the ingredients of an Indiana Jones adventure: an academic,
an old map, and a search for hidden treasure older than the pyramids of
Egypt.
This treasure, however, is a forest in Orkney, which was buried beneath
rising sea levels 6500 years ago. Alistair Rennie discovered it while
doing a PhD looking at the effect of rising sea levels in the area,
which he hopes will inform methods of dealing with climate change. His
studies, funded jointly by Scottish Natural Heritage and Glasgow
University's geography department, took Mr Rennie and his colleagues to
Sanday, Orkney, which he described as a "sinking island".
The 27-year-old said: "We looked at a series of beaches there and we
came across poems and letters and legends suggesting there was this
submerged forest on the other side of the island at Otterswick Bay.
"A man called Dr Triall had written about a woman who walked down to the
bay after a storm in 1838. The sand on the beach had been all whipped up
and she saw a huge expanse of what looked like black moss where there
should only have been more sand.
"We also came across an old map. It was produced in 1847 by a Commander
Becker and the submerged forest was marked on it.
"He had not seen it himself - it referred to what someone had said they
had seen before. It wasn't quite X marks the spot, but it gave us a good
idea of where to look."
Mr Rennie then went out in search of the forest and, after researching
any possible environmental impacts, decided to use a JCB to dig into the
sand on the bay during low tide.
"The first five holes were unsuccessful and I was beginning to think the
forest wasn't there. But then in the sixth hole we came across it."
In fact, it was actually a layer of peat containing parts of trees, the
biggest about the size of a man's thigh.
After digging a few more holes, Mr Rennie and his team were able to
collect 12 samples of trees which they took back to Glasgow for
identification. He said: "It turned out the trees were salix, which is a
willow tree, although they weren't able to identify the type of willow.
It looks like these trees would have been quite substantial, about 9ft
tall."
The samples were then taken to the Scottish Universities Environmental
Research Centre in East Kilbride, where carbon dating revealed that the
trees were 6500 years old. As well as the excitement of the discovery,
Mr Rennie said the forest had helped him conclude that sea levels had
risen by three metres since the trees were alive in 4496BC.
"This is a lot, but over that period of time it is not that worrying,"
Mr Rennie said.
Mr Rennie, who has now almost completed his PhD, will present his
findings at the Orkney Science Festival today.
Copyright 2004 Scottish Media Newspapers Limited
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| Title: Re: Sea level has risen no less than 3 meters during past 6500 years - Rennie |
11 Sep 2004 03:08:28 AM |
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In article <7e%%c.2052$xA1.1216@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote:
Great "warm" story, Steve........ahahahaha.....AHAHAHAHA.........
So, global warming began after the last ice age and hence the
sea level rose, ever-since.....wow...heavy...uptown, big time.
But the kicker is that only in the last few years, at a gathering
called Kydioto, a gargantuan con was conjured up, cooked up,
and poured onto a plagued humankind by a collection of miserably
greedy enviro turds who were and still are figuring out how to
cash in on this vanishing land grab by the sea. New Permit charges,
more Userfees and higher Enviro surtaxes will hardly hold the sea
back, but it will produce a few very fat and rich green shits......and
all the little green idiots, being the unpaid enablers and facilitators
for this malfeasant con will cheer in unison....ahahahaha...Take care
Steve, and watch out, the enviros are still coughing up green loogies.
ahahahaha........ahahahanson
Glad you liked it, and thanks for the safety tip, too! I also want to
congratulate you for the slapping of that flurry of joshin' quotes
lately. Hil-ah-ah-ah-arious stuff!
"Steve Schulin" <steve.schulin@nuclear.com> wrote in message
news:steve.schulin-BFCE6D.11325609092004@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
Source: Vicky Collins (Glasgow Herald environment correspondent),
"Sunken forest found after 6500 years; Orkney trees evidence discovered
under beach", The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), September 9, 2004, p. 14
It has all the ingredients of an Indiana Jones adventure: an academic,
an old map, and a search for hidden treasure older than the pyramids of
Egypt.
This treasure, however, is a forest in Orkney, which was buried beneath
rising sea levels 6500 years ago. Alistair Rennie discovered it while
doing a PhD looking at the effect of rising sea levels in the area,
which he hopes will inform methods of dealing with climate change. His
studies, funded jointly by Scottish Natural Heritage and Glasgow
University's geography department, took Mr Rennie and his colleagues to
Sanday, Orkney, which he described as a "sinking island".
The 27-year-old said: "We looked at a series of beaches there and we
came across poems and letters and legends suggesting there was this
submerged forest on the other side of the island at Otterswick Bay.
"A man called Dr Triall had written about a woman who walked down to the
bay after a storm in 1838. The sand on the beach had been all whipped up
and she saw a huge expanse of what looked like black moss where there
should only have been more sand.
"We also came across an old map. It was produced in 1847 by a Commander
Becker and the submerged forest was marked on it.
"He had not seen it himself - it referred to what someone had said they
had seen before. It wasn't quite X marks the spot, but it gave us a good
idea of where to look."
Mr Rennie then went out in search of the forest and, after researching
any possible environmental impacts, decided to use a JCB to dig into the
sand on the bay during low tide.
"The first five holes were unsuccessful and I was beginning to think the
forest wasn't there. But then in the sixth hole we came across it."
In fact, it was actually a layer of peat containing parts of trees, the
biggest about the size of a man's thigh.
After digging a few more holes, Mr Rennie and his team were able to
collect 12 samples of trees which they took back to Glasgow for
identification. He said: "It turned out the trees were salix, which is a
willow tree, although they weren't able to identify the type of willow.
It looks like these trees would have been quite substantial, about 9ft
tall."
The samples were then taken to the Scottish Universities Environmental
Research Centre in East Kilbride, where carbon dating revealed that the
trees were 6500 years old. As well as the excitement of the discovery,
Mr Rennie said the forest had helped him conclude that sea levels had
risen by three metres since the trees were alive in 4496BC.
"This is a lot, but over that period of time it is not that worrying,"
Mr Rennie said.
Mr Rennie, who has now almost completed his PhD, will present his
findings at the Orkney Science Festival today.
Copyright 2004 Scottish Media Newspapers Limited
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| Title: Re: Sea level has risen no less than 3 meters during past 6500 years - Rennie |
11 Sep 2004 12:08:58 PM |
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"Steve Schulin" <steve.schulin@nuclear.com> wrote in message
news:steve.schulin-E99FBF.04082811092004@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
In article <7e%%c.2052$xA1.1216@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote:
Great "warm" story, Steve........ahahahaha.....AHAHAHAHA.........
So, global warming began after the last ice age and hence the
sea level rose, ever-since.....wow...heavy...uptown, big time.
But the kicker is that only in the last few years, at a gathering
called Kydioto, a gargantuan con was conjured up, cooked up,
and poured onto a plagued humankind by a collection of miserably
greedy enviro turds who were and still are figuring out how to
cash in on this vanishing land grab by the sea. New Permit charges,
more Userfees and higher Enviro surtaxes will hardly hold the sea
back, but it will produce a few very fat and rich green shits......and
all the little green idiots, being the unpaid enablers and facilitators
for this malfeasant con will cheer in unison....ahahahaha...Take care
Steve, and watch out, the enviros are still coughing up green loogies.
ahahahaha........ahahahanson
[Steve]
Glad you liked it, and thanks for the safety tip, too!
[hanson]
You are welcome, Steve, but be careful with mentioning
the word "safety" in my presence, because the green turds
gave it a bad name and use it alway in connection with their
dooms-day MO's to extort new Permit charges, more Userfees
and higher Enviro surtaxes............ahahahaha.....
[Steve]
I also want to congratulate you for the slapping of that
flurry of joshin' quotes lately. Hil-ah-ah-ah-arious stuff!
[hanson]
I am surprised at this. I thought the old geezer just had
a hard-on for me, him believing that I was a girl, and Prof.
Halpern treating me so dicriscrimintatorily, misogynic and
misanthropic. So, like a brave, goodly & godly NGie girl
I had to defend my cyber hymen and my honor against
his small, old boner.........HEY, THAT RHYMES...
Take care Steve.
ahahahaha.......ahahahanson
"Steve Schulin" <steve.schulin@nuclear.com> wrote in message
news:steve.schulin-BFCE6D.11325609092004@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
Source: Vicky Collins (Glasgow Herald environment correspondent),
"Sunken forest found after 6500 years; Orkney trees evidence discovered
under beach", The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), September 9, 2004, p. 14
It has all the ingredients of an Indiana Jones adventure: an academic,
an old map, and a search for hidden treasure older than the pyramids of
Egypt.
This treasure, however, is a forest in Orkney, which was buried beneath
rising sea levels 6500 years ago. Alistair Rennie discovered it while
doing a PhD looking at the effect of rising sea levels in the area,
which he hopes will inform methods of dealing with climate change. His
studies, funded jointly by Scottish Natural Heritage and Glasgow
University's geography department, took Mr Rennie and his colleagues to
Sanday, Orkney, which he described as a "sinking island".
The 27-year-old said: "We looked at a series of beaches there and we
came across poems and letters and legends suggesting there was this
submerged forest on the other side of the island at Otterswick Bay.
"A man called Dr Triall had written about a woman who walked down to the
bay after a storm in 1838. The sand on the beach had been all whipped up
and she saw a huge expanse of what looked like black moss where there
should only have been more sand.
"We also came across an old map. It was produced in 1847 by a Commander
Becker and the submerged forest was marked on it.
"He had not seen it himself - it referred to what someone had said they
had seen before. It wasn't quite X marks the spot, but it gave us a good
idea of where to look."
Mr Rennie then went out in search of the forest and, after researching
any possible environmental impacts, decided to use a JCB to dig into the
sand on the bay during low tide.
"The first five holes were unsuccessful and I was beginning to think the
forest wasn't there. But then in the sixth hole we came across it."
In fact, it was actually a layer of peat containing parts of trees, the
biggest about the size of a man's thigh.
After digging a few more holes, Mr Rennie and his team were able to
collect 12 samples of trees which they took back to Glasgow for
identification. He said: "It turned out the trees were salix, which is a
willow tree, although they weren't able to identify the type of willow.
It looks like these trees would have been quite substantial, about 9ft
tall."
The samples were then taken to the Scottish Universities Environmental
Research Centre in East Kilbride, where carbon dating revealed that the
trees were 6500 years old. As well as the excitement of the discovery,
Mr Rennie said the forest had helped him conclude that sea levels had
risen by three metres since the trees were alive in 4496BC.
"This is a lot, but over that period of time it is not that worrying,"
Mr Rennie said.
Mr Rennie, who has now almost completed his PhD, will present his
findings at the Orkney Science Festival today.
Copyright 2004 Scottish Media Newspapers Limited
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