{"id":32025,"date":"2018-03-07T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32025"},"modified":"2018-03-07T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:21:45","slug":"climate-change-catastrophic-or-linear-slow-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32025","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change \u2013 Catastrophic or Linear Slow Progression?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/climate\/climate-change-catastrophic-or-linear-slow-progression\/\">Climate Change \u2013 Catastrophic or Linear Slow Progression?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Warming-Cavemen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59083 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Warming-Cavemen.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Warming-Cavemen.jpg 650w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Warming-Cavemen-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Warming-Cavemen-180x116.jpg 180w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Global-Warming-Cavemen-600x388.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WoolyRhino.jpg\" alt=\"woolyrhino\" \/>Indeed, science was turned on its head after a discovery in 1772 near Vilui, Siberia, of an intact frozen woolly rhinoceros, which was followed by the more famous discovery of a frozen mammoth in 1787. You may be shocked, but these discoveries of frozen animals with grass still in their stomachs set in motion these two schools of thought since the evidence implied you could be eating lunch and suddenly find yourself frozen, only to be discovered by posterity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59124 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/baby-mammoth.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/baby-mammoth.jpg 461w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/baby-mammoth-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/baby-mammoth-440x300.jpg 440w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/baby-mammoth-180x123.jpg 180w\" alt=\"baby-mammoth\" width=\"204\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0discovery\u00a0of the\u00a0woolly\u00a0rhinoceros in 1772, and then frozen mammoths, sparked the imagination that things were not linear after all. These major discoveries truly contributed to the \u201c<strong><em>Age of Enlightenment<\/em><\/strong>\u201d where there was a burst of knowledge erupting in every field of inquisition. Such finds of frozen mammoths in Siberia continue to this day. This has challenged theories on both sides of this debate to explain such catastrophic events. These frozen animals in Siberia suggest strange events are possible even in climates that are not that dissimilar from the casts of dead victims who were buried alive after the volcanic eruption of 79 AD at Pompeii in ancient Roman Italy. Animals can be grazing and then suddenly freeze abruptly. That climate change was long before man invented the combustion engine.<\/p>\n<p>Even the field of geology began to create great debates that perhaps the earth simply burst into a catastrophic convulsion and indeed the planet was cyclical \u2014 not linear. This view of sequential destructive upheavals at irregular intervals or cycles emerged during the 1700s. This school of thought was perhaps best expressed by a forgotten contributor to the knowledge of mankind,\u00a0<strong>George Hoggart Toulmin<\/strong>\u00a0in his rare 1785 book, \u201c<strong><em>The Eternity of the World<\/em><\/strong>\u201c:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change \u2013 Catastrophic or Linear Slow Progression? Indeed, science was turned on its head after a discovery in 1772 near Vilui, Siberia, of an intact frozen woolly rhinoceros, which was followed by the more famous discovery of a frozen mammoth in 1787. 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