THOSE ANCIENT SUVs STRIKE AGAIN: Scientists discover past climate change to blame for Antarctica’s giant underwater landslides. “Writing in Nature Communications, the scientists say these weak layers—made up of historic biological material—made the area susceptible to failure in the face of earthquakes and other seismic activity. They also highlight that the layers formed at a time when temperatures in Antarctica were up to 3°C warmer than they are today, when sea levels were higher and ice sheets much smaller than at present.”

I pity the inhabitants of that earlier time frame, who didn’t have the option of stopping climate change by raising taxes.