This from 2010…

Mummified Arctic forest may yield climate clues

A newly unearthed mummified forest on a remote island in the Canadian Arctic where no trees currently grow is giving researchers a peek into how plants reacted to ancient climate change.

That knowledge will be key as scientists begin to tease out the impacts of global warming in the Arctic.The ancient forest found on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island which lies north of the Arctic Circle, contained dried out birch, larch, spruce and pine trees. Research scientist Joel Barker of Ohio State University discovered it by chance while camping in 2009.

“At one point, I crested a small ridge, and the cliff face below me was just riddled with wood,” he recalled.

Armed with a research grant, Barker returned this past summer to explore the site, which was buried by an avalanche two million to eight million years ago. Melting snow recently exposed the preserved remains of tree trunks, leaves and needles.

About a dozen such frozen forests exist in Canada’s Arctic, but the newest site is the farthest north.

The forest existed during a time when the Arctic climate shifted from being warmer than it is today to its current frigid state.

Judging by the lack of diverse wood species and the trees’ small leaves, the research team suspects that plants at the site struggled to survive the rapid change from deciduous forest to evergreen.

“This community was just hanging on,” said Barker, who presented his findings Thursday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

The next step is to examine tree rings to better understand how past climate conditions stressed plant life and how the Arctic tundra ecosystem will respond to global warming. Barker also plans to conduct DNA tests on the remains. – cbc.ca

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I’m thinking that the climate clues yielded were not the ones that they wanted as nobody mentions the fact that, at one time, there was a forest in the arctic.  I wonder why.

…The forest existed during a time when the Arctic climate shifted from being warmer than it is today to its current frigid state….

Soooo turns out that there was a forest on Ellesmere Island.  Turns out that the arctic was warmer than it is today.  Maybe the ‘Climate Change Catastrophe’ enthusiasts  can explain this. I await their explanation to this as well as the several Ice Age cycles that the planet has gone through over its lifetime.

I still do not believe that the ‘science’ is settled on anything to do with the planet’s climate.  There is much that is unknown.  Trying to make climate predictions using the data gathered  up to now has proven to be impossible.  Every prediction of climate doom made by the supposed ‘experts’ have been wrong. ALL OF THEM.

Climate Change is a grift.  Its all about money. Taking money out of your pockets and putting into the pockets of the corporations and the billionaires who own them. THAT is ALL its about.

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