Retreating glaciers reveal ancient tree stumps

[ben_meyers]

Why doesn't our media cover this story. Why would it have to come from a foreign source?

BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Glaciers melting in Western Canada are uncovering fresh-looking, intact tree stumps up to 7,000 years old, a geologist said Tuesday.

Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster in Ohio found the tree stumps beside retreating glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Radiocarbon dating of the wood from the stumps revealed the sine of the wood dated back to within a few thousand years of the end of the last ice age.

"The stumps were in very good condition, sometimes with bark preserved," said Koch, who conducted the work as part of his doctoral thesis at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Koch will present his results on Oct. 31 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver.

[jgraz]

1. Look for Rush to tout global warming's boon to paleontology on his show today

Until he realizes that the tree stumps are 1000 years older than the entire earth, that is...

[mihalevich]

2. yes, the show did exactly that

They were attacking scientist, and said the scientist had an agenda. They need to stop attacking the messenger, and debate political solutions/ non-solutions. The debate should not be about the science, but if, and what we do about the change in climate. I