And not an SUV or coal-fired power plant in sight....
Maybe carbon dioxide is not as much of a factor in planetary warming and/or cooling as once thought.
Could either A) a sudden surge of heat from the earth’s interior, released through geothermal vents or eruptions, or B) a sudden surge in the heat reaching the earth from the sun, due to the sun’s own heat release activity, have anything to do with the cataclysmic ice melting?
It takea an AWFUL lot of heat units to convert so much ice to liquid water. Check the textbooks on this.
The melting inland is known to have accumulated in spots, until the ice dams themselves melted, unleashing the meltwaters and producing (for just one instance) the Channeled Scablands.
“It takea an AWFUL lot of heat units to convert so much ice to liquid water. Check the textbooks on this.”
Try a bolide smacking down into where one of the great lakes exists today - that would certainly do it!