Cause of glaciation

[DesertFox]

Since 1982 Ihave been working out the causative mechanism for the initiation of the glacial advance and retreat which has occurred for the last ~2 million years. I have shared some of the theoretical musings with George Kukla of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty lab. He believes that my concept of the causation lying with an atmospheric (meteorological) event is the only currently believable one. All attempts to model theoretical climatic scenarios such as the Milankovitch have failed to present any glaciation.

I believe the causation of the glacial masses (which, as we know were not distributed around the North Pole in a symmetrical fashion, but were entirely confined to North America and Western Europe--Siberia was essentially ice free, although quite a bit closer to the pole), came about through a meteorological event, a storm of hemispheric proportions and cataclysmic intensity. I must warn you: the extreme and unusual weather being experienced everywhere in the world at this time is part of the build-up which leads into this "storm", which will result in the next period of ice.

The laws of nature governing the behavior of gases combine with conditions on the Earth to produce a very intense and violent cyclonic storm in the Arctic region of Canada only under special circumstances. These circumstances require that the Earth be at or near perihelion (day of the Earth's closest approach to the sun in its orbit) at the time of the northern winter solstice. The Earth must also be in a state of low glaciation, known as the interglacial period. During this period the sea levels are high, and this is one of the conditions which allow this cyclone to develop.

The transfer of heat, a normal process, between the Equator and the polar regions is the primary driving force for atmospheric storms of all kinds. This flow is greatest in the winter, and reaches a high intensity in the north in mid December. Once the conditions outlined above are met, the atmosphere will begin to store energy in the form of wave motion, the highs and lows depicted on weather charts. When the stored energy reaches a critical stage, one of the normally present Arctic cold core cyclones will accelerate until it completely takes over the circulation of the northern hemisphere for the remainder of winter, approximately 6 weeks. The conditions within the northern hemisphere will resemble those described in the well known biblical tale of Noah's flood. Disruptive effects will be felt every where on the planet. It is doubtful if it is possible to survive this event within the flux area of the storm. ...

Under exactly the right circumstances there can be initiated on the earth a cyclonic storm of such size and intensity that the entire northern half of the atmosphere is the storm's circulation. This storm is able to produce a large amount of liquefied air, and this liquid, falling to the surface produces a heat debt which results in the glaciation. Evidence for the mist of liquid air is found in the Mammoths dug out of a glacier in Russia in 1905, frozen so quickly that the contents of the intestinal tract failed to ferment. There were fresh daisies in the stomach.

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[garlicguy]

A great read. Thanks.

[Timberwolf]

That was a great read...the others weren't to bad, either.


The run of the storm is about six weeks, until the first week in February, at which time sunlight returns to the spot where the storm is located, thus rendering the atmosphere opaque and stuffing up the exhaust or thermodynamic sink into which the laws of thermodynamics requires a certain amount of the heat must be lost. The major means of heat removal from the planet, however, depends upon the solar wind, a conductive plasma which is deflected to brush the upper atmosphere by the Earth's magnetic wind. The plasma is concentrated by the flux into a magnetic tail trailing out away from the night side of the Earth. The Moon appears as negatively charged to the positive charge created by the storm, and the charge travels along the concentrated plasma stream to impact the Moon...

...Thus the heat passes to the Moon, melting the areas men call the Maria. There are no features like this on the far side of the Moon, and very good photos exist from the Lunar Orbiters which quite plainly show the fusion of the surface, complete with submerged, or ghost craters. Discharges of this nature tend to be bi-directional, in fact lightning strikes sometimes exhibit hundreds of forward and reverse currents. Since the charge is ionized air, which has mass, the return strike will bring bits of lunar breccia entrained in the mass of air back to the Earth.
That would be somethin' to see...but, I think I'll pass, thank you very much.