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In Antarctica, scientists are mapping the effects of temperture change on the ice shelf by drilling into the ice sheets to the ocean floor. FoxNews:

So far, the cores show a dynamic ice sheet that advanced and retreated more than 50 times over 5 million years.

Some of the ice shelf's disappearance was probably during times when the planet was 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) to 37 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) warmer than it is today - "much like it will be in the next 50 to 100 years," said Tim Naish, a lead scientist on the project from Victoria University in New Zealand.

What Naish is saying is that the Earth has been much warmer than it is today, and is in a warming cycle. It wasn't too many years ago that we were in a cooling cycle, and people were in a tizzy over a potential mini-iceage.

The Ross Ice Sheet, where the drilling is taking place is a floating glacier about the size of France.

The historical geological science is interesting as it proves that the Earth's climate is quite cyclical, subject to changes as it moves through the Cosmos.

Of course, the lefties of the world will no doubt blame this on Bush.