11/26/2022 0 Comments The eternal frontier band![]() That, plus a stable but enhanced hydrologic cycle, made Earth a more congenial planet to live on.”Īlas, paradise was not to last. And “even though the Eocene was undeniably hotter than today’s climate, the tropics were probably not as warm as previously thought. Isotope studies suggest that the warm Eocene had a “balanced, subtropical hydrologic cycle and wetter mid-high latitudes” and tropics with “substantially decreased evaporation and increased precipitation” compared to current conditions. The “little brown furry things” refers to the fact that modern mammal species arose during the Eocene.Īlthough some climate alarmists insist that a warmer world will be plagued by droughts and deserts, the Earth in the Eocene was a much wetter world, which supported tropical vegetation. Below that subtropical zone-that was similar to Florida’s landscape today-was a broad band of tropical rain forest.” Palm trees grew as far north as 50 degrees latitude, roughly the boundary between the United States and Canada. The climate was so mild that redwoods, unable now to live much further north than California’s pleasant coast, grew in Alaska, Greenland, Sweden, and Siberia. Sara Stein describes the Eocene ( in The Evolution Book): “The world that all the little brown furry things inherited from the dinosaurs was paradise. MacRae notes that even prominent climate alarmist, Tim Flannery, says in his book, The Eternal Frontier, that North America was a tropical paradise. ![]() They more often see our earlier planet as a ‘paradise,’ even ‘paradise lost.’”ĭuring the Eocene climatic optimum, the planet was “verdant and productive,” covered with luxuriant vegetation. Science writer Paul MacRae says: “Curiously, while alarmists warn about the horrors of returning to the climate of millions of years ago, paleoclimatologists tell a different story. ![]()
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