USGS : Horeshoe Crabs Survive 400 Million Years, But Are Being Killed By 0.7 Degrees Warming

20 Responses to USGS : Horeshoe Crabs Survive 400 Million Years, But Are Being Killed By 0.7 Degrees Warming

1. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:21 pm

   How did they survive that massive warming between 1850 and 1880, you know the time before geological time existed, the time that does not exist?

   Then lets talk a few thousand years, I mean in Geology 10,000 years is nothing, but Climatatology is very special, nothing existed before the medieval warm period, that time period is special and really didn’t exist.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png

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2. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:24 pm

   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Five_Myr_Climate_Change.svg

   Look at the death in crabs!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKK

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3. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:26 pm

   http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/nhshgl.gif

   Why does Geological time start at 1850? It rose to “0” values, why is zero there?

   Then the graph turns blood red!!! Why????

   Why is the southern hemisphere not as effected, does CO2 not work as well there? I thought CO2 worked evenly everywhere, it’s a greenhouse gas. Is there less CO2 in the southern hemisphere ROFL???

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   • M Carpenter says:

     February 16, 2011 at 2:39 pm

     What are you on?!!

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     • Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

       February 16, 2011 at 2:47 pm

       Why magnify the chart so much, 10,000 years is a better way of showing climate, otherwise we are just showing weather

       http://www.uigi.com/Temperature_swings_11000_yrs.jpg

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   • Mike Davis says:

     February 16, 2011 at 6:45 pm

     S P:
     CO2 works in reverse in the Southern Hemisphere! In the Southern Hemisphere they use Green Houses to keep thing cool! 😉

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4. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:29 pm

   Oh look USGS thinks the earth is 4.5billion years old when it comes to rocks, but when it comes to weather it is 150 years old http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/geotime.html

   That’s something that Sarah Palin would say, the earth is 4000 years old? Now how come nobody laughs at the USGS?

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5. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:32 pm

   http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/eart.php/2007/10/22/usgs_and_aasg_updated_geologic_time_scal

   wow USGS and AASG and geological time, but Climatology is not weather we only use 150 years to measure it, before that it was special and mystical and we’ll ignore even the last 10,000 years when we know it was much much warmer several times before. The minoan warming Period 1450–1300 BC was much warmer, why is it totally ignored????

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6. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:33 pm

   Here is a great chart. What it’s better to be cold???

   http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0134840e51fd970c-pi

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   • Philip Finck says:

     February 16, 2011 at 6:16 pm

     Do you have a source for that chart, higher resolution, etc?

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7. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:41 pm

   http://epic.awi.de/Publications/Ste2009a.pdf Antarctica was 4 degrees warmer in the last interglacial period. How did the horseshoe crab and the penguins survive???

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8. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:45 pm

   http://www.globalwarmingart.com/images/1/1d/Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png

   OMG it can’t handle 1mm a year, but it handled 100m in 10,000 years just recently, must have got very sensitive this crab

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9. Me says:

   February 16, 2011 at 2:54 pm

   How true, Survive 400 Million Years, many Ice ages and warming events that make the current climate look like nothing special, a non event, but now they are all gona go away forever. That is Brilliant, if Al got a Nobel for his work this person will surely earn one too!

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   • Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

     February 16, 2011 at 3:36 pm

     a 1mm sea level rise is not climate change, 100m is a climate change. These guys think they are so sophisticated comparing the temperature of 150 years ago to today and have a 0.8C increase, but what is the margin of error on their measuring equipment now and then. It’s totally insane!

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10. suyts says:

    February 16, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    lol, Scarlet is going to town!

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    • Me says:

      February 16, 2011 at 3:16 pm

      Yeah, Go get them Scarlet.

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11. Scarlet Pumpernickel says:

    February 16, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    Guess what!

    The earth is 150 year old, that’s when records began

    http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/42858.html

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    • Mike Davis says:

      February 16, 2011 at 6:49 pm

      I need to get more Pop Corn!!!!

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12. Alan Cheetham says:

    February 16, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    The main horseshoe crab area SST were warmer in the 1940s
    http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/HorseShoeCrab.htm

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13. Bruce says:

    February 16, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Twilight of the crabs? You’d be in decline too if people kept catching you and sucking 1/3 of your blood out of you.

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