Posted on 06/22/2021 8:35:27 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
Imagining the climate of the Antarctica region usually prompts visions of dog sleds, parkas, and explorers like Ernest Shackleton struggling to access the area, only to be beaten back by snow, ice and freezing temperatures.
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...scientists, paleontologists and other experts of ancient eras say that Antarctica was not always thus, that once upon a very long time ago, its landscape bore a greater resemblance to rainforests than the inside of a refrigerator, and had temperatures that were downright balmy.
It’s difficult to imagine, certainly, but about 90 million years ago, sediment samples indicate, Antarctica had the landscape best described as temperate. There was lush vegetation teeming with organisms – hardly the vision most of us have when we conjure up the views there.
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What a fantastic way to view it! Never thought about it in that way!
Or those who think the Earth is 6000 years old.
ML/NJ
>>its landscape bore a greater resemblance to rainforests than the inside of a refrigerator, and had temperatures that were downright balmy.
What was the heat index back then?
But where’d they get their “fossil fuels”?
Well, both the high northern and high southern latitudes have fossilized tropical flora and fauna, but as far as I know there is no evidence of glacial activity around the equatorial region, so it doesn’t look like a result of spinning on a different axis. It looks more like the entire planet was tropical or semi-tropical at some point.
I think you have the correct answer: tectonic plate shift.
I have yet to find a scripture that contradicts it.
The whole journey started when I asked this question: How much time passed between Genesis 1:2 and Genesis 1:3? The bible doesn’t say. This sort of speaks to another interesting discovery of what we know that is not actually true: Everyone “knows” that the rainbow is there to remind us of God’s promise about flooding. Except that’s not what the bible says.
In Genesis 9: Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind...Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”
It is there for GOD to remember, though a sign of the covenant for us.
Right, and the tropical flowers we find in the northern tundra were not there because Eurasia just suddenly floated north from the equator during or after the last ice age. Continental drift simply doesn’t account for the discrepancies between the fossil record and the current climate conditions.
That can’t be true, surely if a star were to ruin the earth it would be a white dwarf. Whites ruin everything.
This is old news.
The Europeans? They've always been willing to march en masse, (those identified as enemies on to pyres, guillotines, and into gas chambers and ovens) behind whatever goose stepping pied piper comes along. Lemmings in electric cars, Muslim blades at their throats.
In the Pangea model of the earth, (based on tectonic plates,) it makes perfect sense.
Now there’s climate change.
Not a lot. 90mil isn’t that far back in geological times. The Earth is estimated to be 4.6billion.
Scientist know there were amphibians and tropical forest under that ice....they just don’t want YOU to know. The tree ring data show that the polar nights were still 6 months long.
There is also a petrified forest on Elsmere Island in the High Arctic. There isn’t any trees there now. Just ice and musk ox.
I thought of that but the map shows Antarctica was about the same place then as it is now.
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