On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 07:10:19 +0900, Tom Bridgeland
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>Most people don't realise that we are in the middle of an ice age
>right now, just a temporary partial warming that is still leaving
>large parts of the Earth covered with ice. Indian summer, then back to
>the long freeze. I hope they get those mammoths cloned soon, we are
>going to need them!

Noted in "The Eternal Frontier" (Tim Flannery, 2001), a significant number
of climatologists think that global warming is leading to increased
snowfall at the poles, resulting in increased sunlight reflection,
accelerating the advance of the next ice cycle.

If this happens the larger and fattier megafauna
(like the giant armadillo) will return.

Philip Thrift
http://www.geocities.com/PaleoFitness