Scientists drilling deep into the edge of modern Antarctica have pulled up proof that palm trees once grew there.
Analyses of pollen and spores and the remains of tiny creatures have given a climatic picture of the early Eocene period, about 53 million years ago.
The study in Nature suggests Antarctic winter temperatures exceeded 10C, while summers may have reached 25C.
BBC News – Palm trees ‘grew on Antarctica’
Vostok, Antarctica Weather Forecast from Weather Underground
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Of course it is the greenhouse effect – continental drift had nothing to do with any of this.
These people are so one-eyed it is unbelievable how they will lie over anything to promote their religion.
All the excess heat and CO2 is escaping through the ozone hole!