'Klimate-Change' Kooks Suffer New Setback: Ancient Tropical Forest Found in Norway

I wonder how the Anthropocentric Global Warming fraud merchants are going to deal with this: 

An ancient tropical forest found in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, may explain one of the most dramatic climatic shifts in Earth’s history. Some 400 million years ago, Earth’s atmosphere witnessed a 15-fold reduction in carbon dioxide. Climate scientists have long tried to account for the drop.

Some scientists believe it was the rise of forests just like the one found in Norway that precipitated the change. As the planet came to host large plants for the first time, the mighty tropical trees sucked millions of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.

The newly unearthed forest — dated at 380 million years old and with its tree stumps preserved still in their upright positions — may mark the beginning of the transition from small plants and grasses to large tree forests.

“These fossil forests shows us what the vegetation and landscape were like on the equator 380 million years ago, as the first trees were beginning to appear on the Earth,” researcher Chris Berry, a professor of earth sciences at Cardiff University,said in a press release.

You really have to laugh at a “scientific consensus” that is so transparently absurd that it can be defeated by the slightest exercise of rational faculties, but such is the extent of the profoundly anti-human “climate-change” racket today. Meanwhile, if you want to see real change on planet Earth, read on:

Over the course of the ancient forest’s long existence, the now-frozen trees have enjoyed a lengthy journey. During the Devonian period, 420 to 360 million years ago, the Norwegian archipelago was part of Laurasia, one of two supercontinents along with Gondwana. The ancient trees grew up near the equator, several hundred miles south of their current home.

The forest’s discovery supports the theory that the emergence of forests led to a drop in CO2 levels. In addition to sucking up more carbon dioxide, the tall trees also helped block out more of the sun’s radiation. Slowly, the planet cooled to temperatures closer to today’s.

Continents shift, temperature rise and fall. And man has absolutely nothing to do with it. What arrogance, what presumption — and mostly, what greed!