The global-warming zealots don’t like it when you point out that Greenland’s ice cap used to be very, very small, and that most of the island actually was green. It sort of messes up their end-of-the-world scenarios if the Greenland icecap melted once before and the Earth is still here:
An international team of researchers recovered ancient DNA from the bottom of an ice core that indicates the presence of pine, yew and alder trees as well as insects.
The researchers, led by Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, say the findings are the first direct proof that there was forest in southern Greenland.
Included were genetic traces of butterflies, moths, flies and beetles, they report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.
The only conclusion one can reach from this revelation is that it was much warmer on the Earth a long, long time ago, long before the Industrial Revolution, the internal-combustion engine, suburban cul-de-sacs, corporate farming, big energy companies, golf courses, Hummers, and a couple of billion extra people.
UPDATE July 7: Bryan at Hot Air has noticed the same thing.
I may be too ignorant to figure this out, but if Greenland once had all those bugs and stuff, but is a frozen wasteland now, wouldn’t that mean that it was warmer then than it is now? So help me out here. If was warmer in the past, and it’s cold now, how can we blame humanity for this? Because it has to be our fault somehow.
