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The Terracycles evidence of super storms is convincing with just 5 basic observations.

  1. In order for the Earth to rapidly cool, heat must be removed from the Earth at a rapid rate.
  2. The ice sheets only occurred on half of Earth’s northern hemisphere
  3. Glacial sketches made by scientists show ice sheets spread from centralized locations.
  4. The Atlantic Conveyor extended all the way to the Labrador and Norwegian Seas during the time of abrupt climate change.
  5. The Greenland Ice Cores show a brief period of exceedingly high winds

From these five basic observations we can apply known meteorological principles to see how a super storm can develop and recognize the clear warning signs and prepare

ourselves for its effects.

 

In the first observation, in order for the Earth to rapidly cool, heat must be removed from the Earth at a rapid rate. According to Richard B. Alley, author of The Two Mile Time Machine, “Climate in the past has been wildly variable, with larger, faster changes than anything industrial or agricultural humans have ever faced.”1 In fact, Richard Alley states with a high degree of certainty that the change occurred in one year or less, definitely less than two years.2 Today scientists are worried about a few degrees F global temperature increase in 100 years.3 But about 11,500 years ago the atmosphere over Greenland warmed by 15 degrees F in less than a decade.4

Since the Sun is the only known energy source capable of heating the Earth by 15 degrees F in less than a decade, 11,500 years ago something happened to the atmosphere to cause it to retain more solar heat. Ice core evidence shows atmospheric methane increased during this time.5 An increase of atmospheric methane suggests an increase in plant decay from swamps and bogs, which would have come from an increase in planetary atmospheric water vapor.

So in less than a decade the Earth’s atmosphere became very humid and retained more heat, thus causing the temperatures over Greenland to increase by 15 degrees F. Other global evidence supports the ice core data, showing this event was not isolated.

This sudden warming of the Earth was due to the Greenhouse Effect where the primary greenhouse gas was water vapor. But just as suddenly, the heat disappeared. According to the data presented by Richard Alley, the warmed Earth cooled suddenly in less than a year.2 Well just as the solar heat came from beyond the atmosphere to heat the planet, the terrestrial heat must go back into space to cool the planet.

If we rely solely on the Thermohaline Circulation theory to explain rapid global cooling, then that does not work, because the heat in Thermohaline Circulation is merely moved to a different location. If the Atlantic Conveyor stops bringing heat to Europe, the heat remains in the ocean and has to go someplace else. However, the entire planet cooled in less than a year, 11,500 years ago. The heat did not merely transfer from one location to another, it was removed from the atmosphere altogether.


This image appears to be distorted in order to give the impression that the ice sheets covered the entire Northern Hemisphere.  Compare the white areas above to a standard desk globe to see the full extent of the distortion.
Click on image to go to image source

The second observation is the ice sheets of the past 20,000 years did not occur around the entire Northern Hemisphere. Take a look at a globe of Earth. The ice sheets occurred in Canada but not Alaska. They occurred over Norway and down into Europe but not in Siberia. The ice sheets covered half of the Northern Hemisphere. And although the ice sheets started near the Arctic Circle, the glaciers traveled over 1000 miles through much more temperate climate; much further south than Alaska or Siberia.

I can’t believe this observation hasn’t struck anybody else as being odd. If North America was so cold that ice would not melt in the summer time, then why didn’t Alaska and Siberia also have ice sheets? The climate is considerably warmer today than 11,500 years ago, or even 20,000 years ago, and yet there is permafrost in Siberia and Alaska but not in most of the area where the ice sheets existed in Canada and Europe.


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