Bob Brown wrote:

Someone said "where I live the ice was a mile thick 20K years ago"
I have to assume he meant some city in a well populated area, not some
area unpopulated like an ice shelf.

Are you claiming that the Laurentide ice sheet wasn't a mile thick in
many places? Sorry to burst your bubble, but it was. Your criterion for
populated cities is meaningless. Back then, the entire area was, except
perhaps for the occasional straggler, devoid of humans.

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:40:02 -0600, kT wrote:

Bob Brown wrote:

Someone said "where I live the ice was a mile thick 20K years ago"
I have to assume he meant some city in a well populated area, not some
area unpopulated like an ice shelf.

Are you claiming that the Laurentide ice sheet wasn't a mile thick in
many places? Sorry to burst your bubble, but it was. Your criterion for
populated cities is meaningless. Back then, the entire area was, except
perhaps for the occasional straggler, devoid of humans.


THIS IS THE COMMENT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:56:14 -0500, Joe Fischer
wrote:

I am sure that 20,000 years a ago, where I am,
the temperature was 50 degrees colder, because
ice was a mile thick here, so I am sure it is warmer
now, but I have not seen any evidence that there
is an "upward trend".

Notice where he says "where I am", indicating he is talking about a
well populated city "TODAY". I am asking does it make any sense that
ice was a "mile thick" in the area 20K years ago?

I am asking about the AREA he mentioned, not greenland.

Please, I am not asking a difficult or trick question.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:32:24 -0400, Bob Brown . wrote:

THIS IS THE COMMENT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:56:14 -0500, Joe Fischer
wrote:
I am sure that 20,000 years a ago, where I am,
the temperature was 50 degrees colder, because
ice was a mile thick here, so I am sure it is warmer
now, but I have not seen any evidence that there
is an "upward trend".

Notice where he says "where I am", indicating he is talking about a
well populated city "TODAY". I am asking does it make any sense that
ice was a "mile thick" in the area 20K years ago?

I am asking about the AREA he mentioned, not greenland.

Please, I am not asking a difficult or trick question.

Unless you accept that the debris dragged by
the mile thick glacier from Canada all across Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois shows that there was a mile
thick glacier here, and there were no men here then,
and the temperature was below freezing under
the ice, it must be a trick question.

There are no bones of man in the US from
before 11,000 years ago, but there are bones of
Woolly Mammoth and Sabre Tooth Tiger in Texas.

I don't understand the problem, what is the trick?

Joe Fischer

Joe Fischer wrote:

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:32:24 -0400, Bob Brown
. wrote:

THIS IS THE COMMENT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:56:14 -0500, Joe Fischer
wrote:
I am sure that 20,000 years a ago, where I am,
the temperature was 50 degrees colder, because
ice was a mile thick here, so I am sure it is
warmer now, but I have not seen any evidence
that there is an "upward trend".

Notice where he says "where I am", indicating he
is talking about a well populated city "TODAY".
I am asking does it make any sense that ice was
a "mile thick" in the area 20K years ago?

I am asking about the AREA he mentioned, not
greenland.

Please, I am not asking a difficult or trick
question.

Unless you accept that the debris
dragged by
the mile thick glacier from Canada all across
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois shows that there was
a mile thick glacier here, and there were no men
here then, and the temperature was below
freezing under the ice, it must be a trick
question.

There are no bones of man in the US
from
before 11,000 years ago, but there are bones of
Woolly Mammoth and Sabre Tooth Tiger in Texas.

I don't understand the problem, what
is the trick?

Joe Fischer

Joe, you may want to also remind them that during
that ice age sea level was as much as 350 feet
LOWER than it is today. Maybe then the doubters
can do their own calculations and determine the
massive quantity of ice that stored that much
water. Also, we are still recovering from that
ice age and hence sea level is still rising - it
is a natural occurrence.