About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast:  Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken [...]]]> http://danaan.net/2010/05/17/climate-change-tree-growth-higher-seas-green-scum/feed/ 0 http://danaan.net/2009/07/22/noahs-flood-science-daily-2007/ http://danaan.net/2009/07/22/noahs-flood-science-daily-2007/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:51:31 +0000 D. http://danaan.net/wordpress/?p=28 New research by the Universities of Exeter, UK and Wollongong, Australia looked at the collapse of the North American (Laurentide) Ice Sheet, 8,000 years ago. They posit that the resultant flooding of the Black Sea lead to flooding myths, the Noah's Ark story, and the expansion of farming and pottery production across Europe. (Hmm- I wonder if this particular ice sheet collapse also coincides with great flood [...]]]> http://danaan.net/2009/07/22/noahs-flood-science-daily-2007/feed/ 0