De-Worming Answers (First Installment)

Why have there been glaciers and rainforests in Wyoming?

From Mississippi to Wyoming, Plants Once Danced to Fast-Changing Climate TuneNational Science Foundation News Release November 10, 2005 Scientists have discovered the first fossil leaves from a period of rapid global warming 55 million years ago. The leaves tell a story about plants alive during that time: a fast-changing climate allowed southern-dwelling trees and shrubs to move north in a hurry. In fact, plants spread from the Gulf Coast to Wyo.--a distance of some 1,000 miles--in 10,000 years or less. A sudden global warming, called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, raised global temperatures as much as 18 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius).

Why is the current temperature so horrible?

Is Global Warming Always Bad?
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2872

Global Warming is Good for You
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,854050,00.html

Why was there a temperature drop at the beginning of the dark ages (When the world was falling apart)?

The population of the Roman Empire shrank from 65 million in 150 to 50 million in 400, a decline of more than 20 percent. Some have connected this to the Dark Age Cold Period (100-700), when there was a decline in temperature globally which reduced agricultural harvests.[3]

Why was there a temperature rise (yes, this is not the first time) at the beginning of the High Middle Ages (AKA the Age of Enlightenment)?

CO2 science http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/data/mwp/description.jsp

Why is there not more discussion on the fact that livestock cause more greenhouse gas than all of the vehicles on earth?

Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN report warns
29 November 2006 – Cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases, as measured in CO2 equivalent, than transportation, and smarter production methods, including improved animal diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions, are urgently needed, according to a new United Nations report released today. “Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems,” senior UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official Henning Steinfeld said. (Hehehehe… he said methane emissions)

Why do I actually want a Hydrogen car? Well, this one is just because I think it would be really cool.

http://www.gm.com/explore/technology/news/2006/fc_fleet_launch_091806.jsp

Does the fact that there is an increasing number of 98.6 degree heat sources on the earth have anything to do with it?

The more one contemplates the infinitesimal effect caused by our minute spatial quantity, the more one is led to generate a negative answer.