Did The Earth Totally Freeze For 100 Million Years?
Around 17,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic, the world was in the grip of an Ice Age the likes of which humanity had never seen before.
Things had been cold on Earth with polar icecaps and chilly northern winters for most of human history.
But about 26,500 years ago it took a turn for the worse. Average temperatures plummeted to around six degrees Celsius colder than today.
Ice sheets grew and extended down from the Arctic circle to the middle of Europe.
On the North American continent, around a quarter of the world’s land surface was totally covered in ice. Sea levels dropped 125 meters lower than it is now.
These glacial conditions created cold and dry weather with strong winds blowing dust into the atmosphere.
But there is evidence that there were much harder times in Earth’s history when there would have been no escape from the ice at all.
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h/t Joe O.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
I do not have time to listen for 45 minutes when I know I can input information much more rapidity and efficiently by reading. And when I listened for 30 seconds I had not been told whom the speaker was I quit listening; so I have no idea if he was a geologist or not. But if you want to learn what a REAL GEOLOGIST wrote about the geological past I urge you read North Dakota’s Geological Legacy by (2016) by John P. Bluemle.
Have a good day,, Jerry .
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The Last Rebel
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The ice 🧊 age lasted about a thousand years after the first earth age ended about 13000 years ago. That’s when the dinosaurs 🦕 died out
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Doug Harrison
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I got to Part 3 and then it became ridiculous so I switched off.
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Saighdear
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And all this about glaciation covering xyz.. …. but in the more distant past, THe plates ahve / had moved. Correleation / cause / effect or what. NOBODY has tied all those loose ends together, much like the Big Bung and recent Universe findings (!)
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SpaceCommando
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Yep. They need to just stop with the “carbon pollution” and “CO2 is causing a climate crisis” nonsense. Unfortunately since they see that as the ultimate control mechanism they’re going to continue to gaslight everyone about that stuff until the coming solar minimum final puts and end to that nonsense.
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Kevin Doyle
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Milankovitch Cycles.
As predicted, they occur every 40,000 years.
Better get your winter coats ready when Earth freezes again in 20,000 years…
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