[movermike] movermike: Ancient Rainforest Rises Again

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Ancient Rainforest Rises Again
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     One of Earth's first [1]rainforests has been found in an Illinois
     coal mine, where an earthquake entombed it 300 million years ago.
     At 10 square kilometers--roughly three times the size of New York
     City's Central Park--the discovery represents the largest swath of
     fossil forest ever seen.

     [...]

     The trees lived during a global warming period that eventually
     melted ice caps and reshaped coastlines. Researchers think that a
     massive die-off of the telephone-polelike lycopsid trees, certain
     fern species, and some marine creatures occurred around the same
     time.

   Did you see that rain forest? And right in the middle of what has
   become the state of Illinois during global warming 300 million years
   ago. Are there any rain forests in Illinois today? Are conditions ripe
   for a tropical rain forest anywhere in the U.S. today? Was there a
   race of people driving cars and spewing CO2 300 million years ago?
   Then, what caused the global warming? Could it be a natural ebb and
   flow of the planet Earth?

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   Mike

References

   1. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/423/1
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/Global+Warming
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/Ancient+Rainforest
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/Global+Warming+Hoax
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/Mover+Mike