It also happened in the 1800's

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/historic-variation-in-arctic-ice-tony-b/

Very interesting read. It is interesting that the year without a summer didn't even seem to stop the melt. It was a time of discovery. There were lots of pounds riding on finding the passage. Interesting bit about Cook and Bligh as well.

Right Jasper. Did they teach you in school that there is a hiatus (google the definition since you probably haven't learned that yet). Are you really suggesting that a hiatus is an incredibly fast pace? Instead of just belonging to a crowd, you should bother to learn something instead IMO.

Victoria island in Canada's arctic has fossils of camels as well petrified wood from a former rain forest.

It melted a little in the 1950s and the World did not end

a decade is but none, i have a few as more

then there is the, Inuit people as they not frozen

and alive, to tell all as where to go,

could you survive as they,

as it is only they as do tell as the condiitions as most of us do not know.

Yeah global warming and cooling has been happening since the earth was formed. Its just that we fucked it up so bad its happening at an incredibly fast pace.

It also happened in the 1800's

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/historic-variation-in-arctic-ice-tony-b/