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I continue to be intrigued by Charles Hapgood's supposedly discredited idea. Too bad, Einstein is no longer with us. He wrote the introduction to Hapgood's first book on the notion that the crust as a shell periodically shifts over the interior. The theory would explain the change in climate discussed here and a lot of other stuff. Einstein's introduction was repeated in the second book.

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Hapgood's greatest problem (besides basic infeasibility of crustal displacement) was an utter lack of supporting evidence.

• Last Ice Age happened in less than year say scientists

  08/02/2008 2:28:28 PM PDT · by Renfield · 78 replies · 261+ views

  The Scotsman | 8-02-08 | angus howarth

  THE last ice age 13,000 years ago took hold in just one year, more than ten times quicker than previously believed, scientists have warned. Rather than a gradual cooling over a decade, the ice age plunged Europe into the deep freeze, German Research Centre for Geosciences at Potsdam said. Cold, stormy conditions caused by an abrupt shift in atmospheric circulation froze the continent almost instantly during the Younger Dryas less than 13,000 years ago - a very recent period on a geological scale. The new findings will add to fears of a serious risk of this happening again in the...