I'll keep on searching for the source of that article, Stacy. I may just have to cough up the money and order a back issuse of Weekly World News.
Meanwhile, if you believe in even limited ice age theories you should read this article from the latest issuse of Atlantis Rising. I'll post some of it here, but I haven't even read the whole article myself yet. They only let you download sample issuses now, and not the whole magazine, so it only goes so far before it gets continued on a page that you can't read unless you buy the magazine. But here's the first part of it:
ICE AGE
Fact or Fiction?
Is It All So Certain
• BY SUSAN MARTINEZ, PH.D.
I n the beginning, the future earth was but a molten mass of fiery gases. Like
all corporeal worlds, its destiny was to begin in fire and end in ice. For 19th
century science, this was a stable dictum—“A constant heat loss from a once fiery earth.”
The flaming earth, of course, had to cool quite a bit before we could go for a walk in
the park. But it is the steady and trifling loss of heat that concerns us most. According to
Isaac Asimov, there is an “eighty-millionyear trend of dropping temperature.” (It’s actually as old as the earth itself.) Certainly this natural and very gradual cooling is intrinsically tied to the simultaneous decrease in the planet’s rotational speed; for all young planets whirl about with a blooming velocity
that Nature tames, little by little. Infant earth spun around her axis in only 14 hours. planet Earth, in fact, is no youngster, some scientists openly lamenting our “geriatric” globe, as witnessed by decreases in vulcanism, sky-falls, continent formation, rainfall, seismic activity, and rotation speed.
Of all the sacred cows that scientific fundamentalism “hugs forever” (William James’
phrase), the Ice Age—and now its stepchild, global warming—is among the most tenacious. Both “Ice Age” and “Global Warming” ask us to promiscuously abandon the age-old march of Geologic Time, i.e., the earth’s minute but incessant loss of heat, and install, in its place a recurring scene of universal refrigeration (ice ages) and, more recently, a frightening tableau of escalating temperatures (global warming).
The idea of Mother Earth changing her habit mid-career, of periodically freezing and
thawing, like the ground in early spring,turning on and off throughout the aeons like
a grand machine—came along, not surprisingly, at the birth of the Industrial Age;
whose mechanistic way set the stage for our scientific models.
Let us begin with a brief look at the chaos of modern science whose glaring lack
of consensus places their pet theories on thin ice, indeed.
Wildly conjectural and obscenely contradictory, these are the clashing “facts” of the
Ice Ages, as set forth by our most notable deans of science:
Ice ages occur every 250 million years;no, make that every 250 thousand years; or,
every 100,000 years; or “several hundreds of thousands of years;” or perhaps, 40,000
years.
When was the first ice age? 300 thousand years ago? 300 million years ago? A billion
years ago?
How long do ice ages last? 100,000 years? “Tens of millions of years”? How many ice
ages have there been?—ten of them in the last million years; four of them in the last
million years; four in the last 600 million years; “five ice ages altogether.”
And when did the last ice age end?— 6,000 years ago;—40,000 years ago;—11,000
years ago;—27,000 years ago;—1,000 years ago. or Does ‘Shift’ Happen?
Had enough?
If scientists are light-years away from agreeing on the vital statistics of ice ages, it’s
for a good reason. There never was an ice age. School’s out.
So let’s scroll back 150 years and see why Charles Darwin was almost forced to fabricate ice ages. Father Darwin, it seems, could not account for the presence of the same animal species inhabiting the far reaches of both northern and southern hemispheres.
How could cold-weather animals have traversed the equatorial zones? Or did they?Ultimately, Darwin postulated “advancing ice” to explain their presence in different corners of the world. Here’s how Darwin’s “ice ages” solved the tickiestzoologicalpuzzle of the 19th century:
When the hypothetical “glacial period” descended upon the north, animals slowly
migrated southward. During the next “interglacial” (warm period—The Big Defrost), some of those heavy-coated beasts returned north again, but others apparently remained
in equatorial regions, finding refuge from heat in the cool mountains. And when the
next “ice age” came along (this is the important part)—it came from the south. Some
kind of alternating pattern.
Well, those animals ensconced in the southern highlands climbed down from their
wuthering heights for warmer pastures. And, as Darwin reasoned, when the next “interglacial” warm set in, those same beasts moved (Continued on Page 31)
My personal views on the Ice Age are built on the "Book of the Hopi" by Frank Waters, Viking Press (1963)
The Hopi Indians are perhaps the oldest surviving civilization of the human race. They trace not one world wide cataclysm, (as in the Flood of Noah), but two others before that. This is the forth world, according to their myths. In their acient religion they correctly depict the world as a giant soccer ball, (a ball with pieces sewn together, as in tectonic plates), which revolves on it's axis. According to their myths the world was first destroyed by Fire and they survived by decending into the inside of the hollow earth at an entrance at the North Pole to live with "the ant people" (who are humanoid but have very thin waistes.).
The second destruction of the world occured when the twin giants who guard the axises of the earth, deserted their poles. The earth tumbled helplessly in the void of space, and the oceans spilled over the continents until the whole earth froze into a solid sheet of ice. The Hopi again survived by going inside the earth to live with the and people.
Now that's what I call an Ice Age! It's a very, very ancient myth and it's the best darn explaination of the Ice Age I've ever heard, and this from a people who shouldn't even know that the earth is round, but do.
