Humans Causing Global Warming for 20,000 Years?

Here's an interesting story about global warming.

Many Arctic plant species have readily adjusted to big climate changes, repeatedly recolonizing the rugged islands of the remote Svalbard archipelago off Norway’s coast through 20,000 years of warm and cool spells since the frigid peak of the last ice age, researchers report in today’s issue of the journal Science.

Their finding implies that, in the Arctic at least, plants may be able to shift long distances to follow the climate conditions for which they are best adapted as those conditions move under the influence of human-caused global warming, the researchers and some independent experts said.

Man, those SUVs and factories have been pumping out global warming gasses longer than I ever realized!

Oh wait; they mean that the planet has undergone warming and cooling in the past. And here I thought that the planet always stayed at a constant temperature and that temperatures were perfect in 1906, when glaciers reached their maximum point in many regions. Amazing.

And, apparently, plants and animals have the ability to adapt to the changes as well.

“As the proper habitat is available, plants will survive,” she said. “I have not seen this demonstrated so clearly as it is in this paper. If dispersal is not a limiting factor, then maybe the rate of warming ongoing in the Arctic will not be a limiting factor in plant survival in distant places.”

This science thing is amazing. One could wonder how much we could actually learn about this planet if agendas didn't drive everything.

Also, not only are environmentalists against kittens, they are against evolution too.

The ability of Arctic flora to disperse widely is probably an evolutionary consequence of the region’s tendency toward sharp climate swings, she said.

Kittens and evolution. What else are they against? Crazy activists.