
Source: atlasobscura.com
Scientists say the blood-red color of this five-story waterfall may be due a 2-million-year-old ecosystem of microbes trapped underneath the glacier.
The Earth is refered to being in an ‘ice-age’ if there is ice present on the surface of the planet…which there is on the poles. We are coming out of an ice age so it is a certainty that the ice would be melting like this. The fact that humans are responcible for it is ridiculous. We couldn’t create global warming just as much as we can’t stop it.
“Roughly 2 million years ago” Gotta always love how these start of.. Millions of years ago.. billions of years ago.. Like anyone or anything was there to witness exactly how or what was happening and had collected exact data in its exact nature of that time.. Come on, over so many supposed millions of years so many things would be changing. Look at how much changes just with in one of our single lifetimes, now compare that to millions of years..
I dont even bother listening to any of it , because truth is no one knows 100 % for sure what was going on. I just wish they would say , We think or we can speculate.. not act like they know exactly what happened.
Not to mention the never ending paradox of how did anything come into existence to begin with ? There has always been existence of intelligence, else how could anything be here today. If there ever was a time when there nothing, absolutely nothing, then nothing would exist today. Nothing can just come into existence.
So you all go about the day slightly smarter: This bleeding glacier is old, and was first discovered in 1911. Geologists had first thought the red coloring was due to a species of algae but it was later discovered that there was a massive amount of iron inside the glacier that causes the water to look red. This has nothing to do with global warming. Congrats, you are smarter.
Don’t worry folks, I have it on good word that global warming is cyclical. Two million year-old swarms of microbes are released all the time!
discoverfossils.com
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