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Great Flood Proven: Build your Arks now!!

Minoriteeburg
10-01-2006, 16:39
Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that occurred at the beginning of the current warm period 8,000 years ago. Their work is the first to consistently model the event and the first time that the model results have been validated by comparison to the record of climate proxies that scientists regularly use to study the Earth's past.
"We only have one example of how the climate reacts to changes, the past," said Gavin A. Schmidt, a GISS researcher and co-author on the study. "If we're going to accurately simulate the Earth's future, we need to be able to replicate past events. This was a real test of the model's skill."



.......The group used an atmosphere-ocean coupled climate model known as GISS Model E-R to simulate the climate impact of a massive freshwater flood into the North Atlantic that happened about 8,200 years ago after the end of the last Ice Age. As retreating glaciers opened a route for two ancient meltwater lakes known as Agassiz and Ojibway to suddenly and catastrophically drain from the middle of the North American continent.



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just thought this was interesting.
Drunk commies deleted
10-01-2006, 16:40
Flood?
Puddytat
10-01-2006, 16:43
Could a massive freshwater pulse also be caused by straights of Gibraltar/Bosphorus opening up and releasing vast amounts, my Geology isn't that good so excuse some probable obvious mistakes.
The Nazz
10-01-2006, 16:44
Flood?
Yeah, I don't get it either.
Zero Six Three
10-01-2006, 16:45
No flood just an ice dam breaking resulting in a three hundred year long cooling.. nothing biblical..
Minoriteeburg
10-01-2006, 16:48
this really wasnt meant to be biblicial.

i just saw this while lookin around the net
Randomlittleisland
10-01-2006, 17:14
just thought this was interesting.

I hate to break it to you but just because it flooded parts of North America doens't make it a 'great flood', there are other parts of the world you know.:p
Turquoise Days
10-01-2006, 17:35
Could a massive freshwater pulse also be caused by straights of Gibraltar/Bosphorus opening up and releasing vast amounts, my Geology isn't that good so excuse some probable obvious mistakes.
If you mean modern day, the med is salty (or it was last time I checked)
In the past, what is now the Med has been connected and unconnected many time, due to Gibraltair opening an closing (doesn't matter how) However, at no time has the Mediterrenian been freshwater - always 'the same as the other oceans' or 'one hell of a lot saltier as all the water is evaporating off'.