Trees could grow in Antarctica within century: scientist

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SYDNEY (AFP) - Trees could be growing in the Antarctic within a century because of global warming, an international scientific conference heard.

With carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere set to double in the next 100 years, the icy continent could revert to how it looked about 40 million years ago, said Professor Robert Dunbar of Stanford University.

"It was warm and there were bushes and there were trees," he told some 850 delegates in the Tasmanian capital Hobart, the national AAP news agency reported.

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Dunbar said climate experts were predicting a doubling of the levels of carbon dioxide by 2100, "but it actually looks like it's going to come sooner unfortunately."

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[Master Mahon]

1. And judging by the way the GOP is evolving

the neanderthal will be alive and well in north america shortly! :+

[TwentyFive]

2. Is this what * meant by the Healthy Forests initiative?

Perhaps people will wake up. Forests good. Forests in Antarctica, not good.

[Javaman]

3. That's wishful thinking..

Because the water that will be released by the melt will cause the oceans to rise at least 25 feet. There won't be much in the way of exposed land mass in Antarctica at that point.