I suppose the argument can be made (I think it’s bullshit, but the argument is often made) that global warming is just part of the natural warming and cooling cycle of the planet. Nonetheless, open water in the arctic, the melting of the glaciers in Greenland, and the steadily increasing (in numbers and severity) of tornadoes and hurricanes makes it hard to deny that it’s actually happening.
What lurks beneath the ancient ice?
This story adds a bit more anecdotal evidence. A group of hikers in Norway just found some arrowheads, and a bow, that are seriously old. Some of the arrowheads were 5,400 years old. That’s well before the Romans. Before the golden age of Athens, although there were probably some ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Egypt was already a thing.
But up in Norway, people were still smearing their bodies in bear fat and covering themselves in animal skins. They probably lived in caves, when they could find them. And those arrowheads have been covered up in ice and snow, from now until then.
It makes me think that there is a good side to global warming. Although some archaeologists think this is a bad thing (read the article), to me it seems that without the meltoff, this stuff just would have remained invisible to us.
I also imagine that, while we may lose Florida and the Seychelles, enough land in Greenland, Canada and Siberia will become usable that it will make up for it.
I am not saying global warming is a good thing. It is a catastrophe and we should try to stop it by using alternative energy sources, building high speed rail lines and planting billions and billions more trees.
But maybe we should also be trying to figure out how to take advantage of it. Because, like it or not, man made or not (it’s man made), it’s happening and it’s too late to stop it completely.
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