Memo to Senator Inhofe

Science Daily reported yesterday that "Western Canada's Galciers Hit 7000-Year Low." Scientists radiocarbon dated frozen tree stumps that melting ice recently uncovered and discovered that they were more than 7000 years old. Here's a quote:

The radiocarbon dates seem to be the same around the world, according to Koch. It's important to note that there have been many advances and retreats of these glaciers over the past 7000 years, but no retreats that have pushed them back so far upstream as to expose these trees.

The age of the tree stumps gives new emphasis to the well-documented "before" and "after" photographs of retreating glaciers during the 20th century.

"It seems like an unprecedented change in a short amount of time," Koch said. "From this work and many other studies looking at forcings of the climate system, one has to turn away from natural ones alone to explain this dramatic change of the past 150 years."

I can't wait to hear how Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, America's most powerful global-warming denier, explains this one. These trees pre-date Adam and Eve according to most of his constituent's literal interpretations of the Bible.