Posted on 05/16/2007 3:00:33 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
However, in the late 70’s I recall all the literature on the coming ice age. It was very convincing at the time.
Hal Lindsey was quite popular and the population bomb books were all the rage also.
Hard to get excited these days about this stuff, given the sadly inaccurate history of predicted disasters.
Somebody with better internet skills needs to find that cover. Which cover? I think it had to be TIME or Newsweek. “The Coming Ice Age” - circa 1979 ?
This is a minor “big one” occurring relatively short time ago affecting mainly the NA continent, in almost historical times.
So arctic melting leads to self correction?
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Looks like it, man what a noise that one would have made.
Recorded human civilization has only been around for a few thousand paltry years. Even 200 years ago, life was radically different for humans than it is today. No computers, airplanes, automobiles, telephones, electricity, indoor plumbing, etc.
Forget about global warming and "man-made changes" to the climate. At various intervals, most of North America was covered under thousands of feet of solid ice during the Ice Ages. These times will come yet again no matter how much we cut back on our "emissions" to curb "global warming."
I would like to be given the powers of immortality and go back in time to 25 million years ago. I would like to take with me every book ever published, every music recording ever made and every movie/TV show ever made as well as every bottle of wine and beer ever made just so I will have something civilized to do during those millions of years of non-human civilization. (Of course, I would like a power source to run all these things as well.)
This will allow me to observe the Earth for 25 million years and record everything in detail. Then as human civilization took shape, I would like to be an observer for Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and of course, all of U.S. History. I would like to journey with the Pilgrims to New England and be on hand to observe first-hand the entirety of U.S. history.
I would like to drink beer with Benjamin Franklin, go horse riding with George Washington, have a duel with Alexander Hamilton (though not kill him), take in a play with Abraham Lincoln (though stay away from "Our American Cousin") and freak out Albert Einstein by talking about the theory of relativity with him before he even thought of it.
Yeah, all of that would be good fun.
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An ice dam broke on the South Shore of a fresh water lake larger than Superior.
It created vast "bad lands" formations in Canada and the United States that can still be seen. The fellow with that theory was actually laughed at until other scientists proved it.
This is just a slightly larger scale thought on the matter for a slightly earlier period of time.
For a small scale version visit Turkey Run state park near Crawfordsville, Indiana. Here a two mile high glacier melted off into a waterfall that ended at this site.
Without those currents the icebergs breaking out of the sea ice wouldn't have gotten much momentum ~ making travel in a small boat relatively safe even in mid-ocean. I would imagine this would even have a serious impact on hurricanes and that would have extended the sailing time into the warmer months giving the Sa'ami plenty of time to reach America.
I think we can come up with a specific date for when the first Europeans could have arrived in America via an Atlantic route now.
Question - what recorded blast started wildfires? Every high temperature blast, that I have seen record of, cooked (sometimes to charcoal) things exposed to them, yet I see no references to fire resulting from them.
There have been a large number of volcanoes that have erupted in recorded history, yet it has only been lava flows that I have heard of starting fires. I believe it was incendiaries, not high explosives that started the firestorms that immolated cities in WWII.
This is Temperate Zone Ice about a mile or so thick.
Think "like Antarctica".
Ms. Becker listened to you.
They could have walked across the ice.
Tunguska.
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