Global Warming -- Not A Bakken Story

From the AP, Saturday, November 20, 2010, another "global warming" story. Does anyone else see the inconsistency in the lead paragraph of this article? If not I will point it out in the comments. But here are the two lead paragraphs:

The last time the world warmed, 120,000 years ago, the Cancun coastline was swamped by a 7-foot (2.1-meter) rise in sea level in a few decades. A week from now at that Mexican resort, frustrated negotiators will try again to head off a new global deluge.

The disappointment of Copenhagen — the failure of the annual U.N. conference to produce a climate agreement last year in the Danish capital — has raised doubts about whether the long-running, 194-nation talks can ever agree on a legally binding treaty for reining in global warming.

Whether or not there is any global warming occurring is still being argued (just a few years ago, a Newsweek front cover article said the earth was entering another ice age). What part man plays in climate change is really difficult to sort out when one considers the internal inconsistency of the story above.

"The last time the world warmed, 120,000 years ago, the Cancun coastline was swamped ..."

Okay, 120,000 years ago, I assume the "global warming" argument is that the warm age back then was caused by all those Neanderthals and Homo sapiens competing to see who could burn the most coal to warm their caves. Or maybe it was their gasoline-burning monster SUVs used in stampeding woolly mammoths over the sides of cliffs.



'Nuf Said