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The Scientific Absurdity
Of The Mythical 'Ice Age'
By Dick Fojut <dfgraphics@gci-net.com>
9-22-00
 
 
 
Jeff...
 
Ice today is the same as ice in the ancient past. A glacier of ice SLIDES DOWNHILL.
 
"The geological glacial period theory includes a range of great mountains in Labrador, Canada."
 
The quoted excerpt above and quotes below begin on P. 123 of Colonel James Churchward's brilliant 1935 Book Two of his "Cosmic Forces of MU" trilogy. He died before writing book three. With undeniable proofs, he easily - and humorously - punctured holes in many orthodox scientific theories of his time - AND of today, especially the continuing Myth of the Ice Cap.
 
Churchward asserted it was instead the - final- "Magnetic Cataclym," a lurch of the direction of the north pole approximately 17,000 years ago, causing the oceans to spill in the opposite direction, carrying mountains of loosened Polar ice and pieces of rock on their crests southward over parts of the then MOUNTAINLESS plains of Western Europe, Canada and the United States. A cataclysmic event lasting DAYS, not thousands of years. For thousands of miles the roaring waves of water moving south, transporting volumes of ice and rock, pulverized all trace of vegetation, animals and men into a fertilizing pulp, settling into a vast sea of rich mud from horizon to horizon. The ice and rocks (which became boulders) carried by the waves scratched and planed the stationary rocks. Thousands of years later, forming volcanic "gas belts," raised the surface above them into mountain ranges and many of the deposited boulders from the flood, were carried up with them where they are now found on the tops of mountains.
 
(Churchward, P. 123): "According to geological theory, these Labrador mountains were raised especially and expressly to give the great glacier its first boost to send it ripping and tearing down over the United States; as geologists say that the glacier could not have commenced its slide without the aid of these mountains."
 
"The Labrador Mountains. however, unusual as it may seem in mountains, had a conscience; for when they saw the horribly mean trick they had played on a friendly neighbor, they became so thoroughly ashamed of themselves that they sank back again into the body of the earth, and so thoroughly effaced themselves that today not a trace or mark of them remains to show that they ever existed."
 
The 60,000 feet high "Labrador Mountains" ...a range twice as high as the Himalayas with an ice cap of 20,000 feet more on top...
 
(P. 124) "...I made a calculation, which can be checked off by any surveyor or engineer. Water will not drain off fast at a fall of 1 to 25, ice to slide requires much more. Take the distance from Labrador to the 40th degree South Latitude as the base of the triangle. Now calculate the altitude necessary at the peak of the triangle for this slide. I got to 60,000 feet and then stopped, yet I was not at the top of these mountains."
 
"60,000 feet, however, was not the total height of the Labrador Peaks, as there was at least a thickness of ice of at least 20,000 feet on top of them, so that the ultimate limit of the mountains, plus ice, was over 15 miles, or about one third of the way through the earth's atmosphere. Can any thing more grotesque, absurd, and impossible be conceived?"
 
(P. 125) ".... Now let us glance at another absurdity. To form an ice cap around the Northern Hemisphere down to the 40th Partallel, of a thickness of 20,000 feet, would require more water than now exists in the Arctic Ocean, North Atrlantic and North Pacific Oceans. Where did the water come from? and where has it gone to since? The water which formed the Northern Ice Cap could not have come from the South, because the South Pole was imitating her northern sister by dressing herself also up in an equally imposing ice cap. Between these two there was more water used in forming these two lumps of ice than now exists on the face of the earth!
 
(P. 129) "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE." "In North Eastern Asia, Siberia especially, and prominently along the Lena River Valley and watershed, are very distinct geological markings showing that at the end of the Pliocene or beginning of the Pleistocene, and at the very time when the supposed ice cap was covering all of the Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere, a great flood of water without ice, coming from the south, rolled in a northerly direction over the great plains of Manchuria, Mongolia and Siberia. The wave ended in the Arctic Ocean."
 
(P. 130) "... incontrovertible evidences that when the supposed ice cap was covering Europe and North America with tens of thousands of feet of ice, in Northern Asia, on the same parallels of latitude as the supposed ice cap, the climate was temperate and mild, with only ordinary winter ice; for it is shown that at that time there was an abundance of temperate climate vegetation, with myriads of temperate climate animal life living upon it." "... this great Cataclysmic wave of water... gathered up the great animal life which roamed the plains - ...to the Arctic Ocean, and at the mouth of the River Lena deposited them in bulk. Their bones and tusks now form LLAKOFF'S ISLAND..."
 
(P.131) "...Had there been ice accompanying the Asiatic wave, the bodies and bones of all the animals would have been ground to a pulp, as they were in Europe and North America, and then Llakoff's Island would never have appeared upon the map."
 
Jeff,
 
I could go on and on with such excerpts but would prefer you read Churchward's two scientific books (Cosmic Forces of MU) and judge for yourself. His views on Earth's scientific past, geology and astronomy are UNIQUE. And his proofs are solid. NOT ONE of today's crop of researchers including Kaku, Moon, Sitchin, Hoagland appear to have ever read the two Churchward "Cosmic Forces" books "mentioned above! I find that incredible! In the 45 to 50 years since I first read them, I have sifted all orthodox and unorthodox scientific "facts" that have come to my attention through Churchward's material... and (with a very few exceptions) have found Churchward's views MORE EVIDENTIALLY ACCURATE than MANY of the accepted scientific beliefs of today!
 
For whatever it is worth, that is my opinion.
 
Dick Fojut <dfgraphics@gci-net.com
 
Dick Fojut Graphics 2622 E. 6th St./Tucson, AZ 85716 Tel-Fax 520-325-3802


Comment
 
From Chris Fines finesey@hotmail.com
9-23-00
 
Hello Jeff,
 
I have been a long time reader of your page www.sightings.com and I try to listen to your show when I get the opportunity. I have noticed the headlines on your page and I have noted that many make substantial claims, some are well written and backed up, others are not so, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
 
However, as a student of Environmental Sciences and of Geology I have to say that I have never seen an article with such blatant disrespect for reason and logic then the article entitled "The Scientific Absurdity of the Mythical 'Ice Age'". Mr. Fojut makes some interesting points regarding the validity of the ice age unfortunately there are major mistakes in both his argument and his logic.
 
Firstly, he bases his entire argument on the research of a single author which is in itself a scientific fallacy, as any thesis, wether for or against the scientific establishment must be based on the work of multiple researchers.
 
My next points have to do with the ice age itself. The claim of Mr. Fojut is that a large 'wave' of debris and water swept across the areas now believed to have been glaciated which caused the sedimentation and land formations that we now believe to have been caused by a continental ice sheet.
 
The first evidence that I have to offer revolves around the phenomenon known as Isostatic rebounding which was incidentally discovered after Colonel James Churchward wrote the book which attempts to defraud the continental ice sheet theory. Isostatic rebounding is the observed phenomenon of the Earth's crust rebounding upwards, sometimes at a rate of up to 1cm a year in certain places which is the result of the crust being compressed for a long period of time and then having the weight removed. The crust, compressed into the magma of the Moho discontinuity (the area between the mantle and the crust) is slowly rebounding upwards after the tremendous weight of billions of tons of ice was removed during the pleistecine era where the continental ice sheets retreated Northwards for the final time in recorded history. This rebounding only occurs in areas that show other glacial features (mostly in North America).
 
Secondly, I would like to point to the glacial feature called the Roche Moutone (lamb rock). The Roche Moutone is a feature that is formed when an ancient coral reef is turned into limestone through sedimentary processes and is then exposed and weathered by a giant mass of slowly moving ice. The Roche Moutone is slightly sloped on one side (the direction the ice sheet is sliding from) and is rough on the other (which is where rock was plucked by water flowing into the cracks surrounding the rock, frozen and then a huge chunk of the rock is removed as the glacier moves.
 
On top of the Roche Moutone are hundreds of striations where debris on the bottom of the ice sheet is dragged along the rock (all in a single direction) and create deep grooves that could only have been created by slow, heavy objects. Now you may argue that limestone itself is a soft rock, however roche moutone-type landforms have been recorded in Granite as well as Pyroxime and Feldspar, all very hard rocks (well pyroxime and feldspar being minerals). Thirdly there is the landform known as the esker, which is formed when huge ammounts of debris-laden water makes its way through small tunnels below the glacier, these tunnels eventually get clogged with sediments and fill up. After the glacier melts the esker is exposed and many can be seen running for many miles throughout southern Canada and the northern USA.
 
Finally, there are Drumlins, large, teardrop shaped hills (which taper in the direction opposite to where the glaciers were flowing) that populate southern Ontario, as well as upstate New York, Ohio, Montana, Illinois, Michigan and many other places around the world. These drumlins are formed along the same lines as Eskers. They form when a small cavern opens up beneath a large ice sheet and the cavern fills with debris laden water. The water drops its sediments (glacial till) as it plunges into the cavern and a pile of debris builds up. The debris is then overrun by the glacier which tapers it into a teardrop shape. These landforms cannot be formed by any fluvial processes as proposed by Colonel James Churchward and is only the result of large-scale ice sheet activity.
 
Mr Fojut points out that since the ice was 2000m thick and the Labrador Mtn's 6000m high then the glacier would reach 1/3 of the way into the atmospeher (by the way the atmosphere 'officially' ends at the thermosphere which is 100km up). But the glaciers did NOT cover every part of their areas equally, the ice may never have reached the top of the Labrador mountains or if it did then they would be thin indeed. He also makes the point that rocks are found on mountain tops far away from where they should be, this is true.
 
These rocks, called Eratics are rocks plucked from under the glacier and slowly moved until they reach the top, they are then set down wherever the glacier melts, so a glacier that just makes it to the top of a mountain, even though the ice would be thin, the ice would eventually melt and deposit the rock. He also makes the point that there is not enough water in the oceans to accomodate these massive ice sheets, and this is both true and false.
 
The ice age happened in spurts, with glaciers coming and going several times. Sometimes certain areas would be covered and sometimes they would not be covered. So since the ice would not cover all of North America at the same time, this can be accomodated (plus the oceans dropped by 30-35% during the ice age). Now there are many points that are made that I don't have the time to dispute here, but rest assured there is much evidence to the contrary. But don't take my word for it, go to your local University Library and take out several scientific journals on the topic of continental ice sheets and look at the evidence yourself.
 
Still not convinced? Then go for a hike and spot the eskers, drumlins and Roche Moutone's. There are hundreds of other glacial features that I have not discussed here such as Basal Sediment Deformation Straiations, or Terminal Moraines or Kettleholes, none of these landforms can be created by fluvial processes (even the cataclysmic ones suggested in the article) but can be created by slow-moving glaciers. These landforms are all observed on a smaller scale in areas where Alpine glaciers (glaciers on mountains, as opposed to ice sheets which covered the Northern Hemisphere and still cover Greenland and Antarctica) and can therefore be attributed to the long term actions of rivers of ice.
 
So please, I implore you, many of the articles on your page talk about being kept ignorant by the scientific establishment.....but don't be kept ignorant by articles that are posted on your site as well.....so go out and look at all the evidence, not just mine or Mr Fojut's.
 
Best Regards -
Chris
 
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