What is an "ice age?"

[mamooth]

Think of it as cookie dough. Take a fist full of cookie dough and throw it on the floor. Now do that 1000 times, and your cookie dough is covering the kitchen floor and pushing out the door.

No, raccoons would show up to eat the cookie dough that pushed out the door, so it would never advance.

Same with Greenland. If the ice tried moving south while temperatures were warm, it would be "eaten" by something, the warmer temperatures. Global temperatures had to drop before the ice sheet could form.

WHY is there ice south of the Arctic Circle on Greenland and plants north of the Arctic Circle on Canada???

Elevation. The elevation of the ice sheet creates its own cold climate. Because of topography, those conditions didn't exist anywhere else.

And that means if it melts, it can't be recreated unless temperatures get very cold again.

 

[Crick]

See the blue period Dex? Those are glacial periods. The scale at the bottom is in years.

Thus there have been ten (nine and fraction) glacial periods in the last 800,000 years. How far have the world's tectonic plates moved in the last 800,000 years? The North American plate is currently moving at 15-25 mm/year to the WEST. Let's assume all the world's plates were moving due north and south at that rate. How far would they go in 80,000 years (roughly the length of a glaciation period).

80,000 * 0.025m = 2,000 meters. 2 km. Less than 1-1/4 miles.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

See the blue period Dex? Those are glacial periods. The scale at the bottom is in years.

Thus there have been ten (nine and fraction) glacial periods in the last 800,000 years. How far have the world's tectonic plates moved in the last 800,000 years? The North American plate is currently moving at 15-25 mm/year to the WEST. Let's assume all the world's plates were moving due north and south at that rate. How far would they go in 80,000 years (roughly the length of a glaciation period).

80,000 * 0.025m = 2,000 meters. 2 km. Less than 1-1/4 miles.

You're right, he thinks the plates have to move 16 miles to cause an ice age.

 

[LaDexter]

If the ice tried moving south while temperatures were warm, it would be "eaten"

So just how did Greenland get covered in ice?

We know from the history of the vikings that the southern tip was not frozen until the 1400s. It is still frozen today...

LOL!!!

Were did you get your "science" degree, from Dexter Manley University?

 

[LaDexter]

You're right, he thinks the plates have to move 16 miles to cause an ice age.

Less than that. There exists, in the history of Greenland and Antarctica, a year where the annual snowfall ceased to melt for the first time. That is the start of an ice age, during a period of an inch or so of plate movement, a "first year."

 

[LaDexter]

See the blue period Dex? Those are glacial periods. The scale at the bottom is in years.

Thus there have been ten (nine and fraction) glacial periods in the last 800,000 years. How far have the world's tectonic plates moved in the last 800,000 years? The North American plate is currently moving at 15-25 mm/year to the WEST. Let's assume all the world's plates were moving due north and south at that rate. How far would they go in 80,000 years (roughly the length of a glaciation period).

80,000 * 0.025m = 2,000 meters. 2 km. Less than 1-1/4 miles.

This stuff is complete bullshit fudge.

It does not explain the data, like why did NA thaw while Greenland froze during the past million years...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

You're right, he thinks the plates have to move 16 miles to cause an ice age.

Less than that. There exists, in the history of Greenland and Antarctica, a year where the annual snowfall ceased to melt for the first time. That is the start of an ice age, during a period of an inch or so of plate movement, a "first year."

You never did explain when the glacier that created the Great Lakes first formed and when it finally melted.
If you did, it would prove your "Ice Ages don't end until the plates drift far enough from the poles" theory is
wrong.

 

[LaDexter]

No it wouldn't, and you are still dodging the question about why Greenland has ice south of the Arctic Circle, which is the planet's one active data point on the subject.

Dodge the question, ignore the data, and post bullshit over and over. Have you ever applied for a job as a "climate scientist?" You have what it takes...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

No it wouldn't, and you are still dodging the question about why Greenland has ice south of the Arctic Circle, which is the planet's one active data point on the subject.

Dodge the question, ignore the data, and post bullshit over and over. Have you ever applied for a job as a "climate scientist?" You have what it takes...

you are still dodging the question about why Greenland has ice south of the Arctic Circle,

What's the altitude of the ice sheet in Greenland?
Is it higher than the ice free areas in Canada you're worried about?

Have you ever applied for a job as a "climate scientist?"

I mock climate scientists when they say stupid shit, mocking a skeptic like you who has no
clue about science is even easier.

 

[Moonglow]

What is an "ice age?"

When she cuts you off...

 

[LaDexter]

What's the altitude of the ice sheet in Greenland?

It is thickest up north, where it started, and thins as it gets further south.


from google

 

[LaDexter]

mocking a skeptic like you who has no
clue about science is even easier.

You haven't laid a glove on my stuff. All you've proven is that you do not understand glacial movement, and you think a 757 can fly at 400 mph with its engines in the ground...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

mocking a skeptic like you who has no
clue about science is even easier.

You haven't laid a glove on my stuff. All you've proven is that you do not understand glacial movement, and you think a 757 can fly at 400 mph with its engines in the ground...

You haven't laid a glove on my stuff

You haven't backed up any of your stuff.
How far away was Chicago from the pole when the most recent ice sheet covered it?
How far away when the most recent ice sheet melted?

Why so shy?

you think a 757 can fly at 400 mph with its engines in the ground

If a 757, flying at full speed, hits the ground, losing its engines, how long will it take the mass of the plane to stop?
Instantly? Or do the laws of physics, you know, inertia, apply?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What's the altitude of the ice sheet in Greenland?

It is thickest up north, where it started, and thins as it gets further south.


from google

It is thickest up north

What's the altitude?

 

[LaDexter]

If a 757, flying at full speed, hits the ground, losing its engines, how long will it take the mass of the plane to stop?

If a 757 scrapes its engines on the ground, it cartwheels.

 

[LaDexter]

How far away was Chicago from the pole when the most recent ice sheet covered it?

Within 50 miles of where it is now. Chicago melted because the ice that covered it came from the north, and stopped coming once the top of contiguous northern Canada moved out of the glacier manufacturing zone (600 miles from Pole). I have explained that to you at least a dozen times...

 

[LaDexter]

What's the altitude?

Less than Antarctica's. You look it up. The thickest part of Greenland's ice is about a mile and a half thick, on its way to over two miles in the next few million years...

 

[mamooth]

We know from the history of the vikings that the southern tip was not frozen until the 1400s. It is still frozen today...

No it's not.

Stop making shit up. Everyone already knows you're an open fraud. No need to keep confirming it.

 

[Crick]

How far away was Chicago from the pole when the most recent ice sheet covered it?

Within 50 miles of where it is now. Chicago melted because the ice that covered it came from the north, and stopped coming once the top of contiguous northern Canada moved out of the glacier manufacturing zone (600 miles from Pole). I have explained that to you at least a dozen times...

No you haven't.

 

[Crick]

See the blue period Dex? Those are glacial periods. The scale at the bottom is in years.

Thus there have been ten (nine and fraction) glacial periods in the last 800,000 years. How far have the world's tectonic plates moved in the last 800,000 years? The North American plate is currently moving at 15-25 mm/year to the WEST. Let's assume all the world's plates were moving due north and south at that rate. How far would they go in 80,000 years (roughly the length of a glaciation period).

80,000 * 0.025m = 2,000 meters. 2 km. Less than 1-1/4 miles.

This stuff is complete bullshit fudge.

Give us some reason to believe that besides your say-so.