Evidence Past Climate Change Happened in Hours
Discovery of a 5,200 year old soft-bodied plant frozen in glacial ice in Peru reveals evidence of a massive and long-lasting climate change that happened amazingly quickly. In order for the plant to have been quick-frozen rather than killed by frost, it must have been covered by a massive snowfall that took place over just a few hours. Since then, the plant has remained frozen and has not been thawed, meaning that once this snowfall took place, no melt occurred for over five thousand years, until now. Is this evidence of a past Superstorm? Scientists are working to understand the mechanism behind what is being called an “astounding” finding.read more