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To: blam
The research team believes the detonations destabilized a vast ice sheet, known as the Laurentide Ice Sheet, that covered most of what was then Canada and the northern United States. Heat from the detonation and firestorms would have melted much of the ice sheet, releasing water vapor into the atmosphere.

“The result was rapid cooling of about eight degrees over the next 100 years,” Bunch said. The melting of the ice sheet and subsequent climate change would explain the water-based nature of the black mat.

The Laurentide Ice Sheet, IIRC, was about a mile thick. The heat from the detonation and the firestorms were sufficient to melt this? Really?

And then the temperature dropped eight degrees over the next 100 years? Which resulted in a lot of water, but did not contribute to a recovery of the Ice Sheet?

3 posted on 09/25/2007 1:06:22 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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The gentleman has issues with decimal points.

"The detonations we’re talking about would be about 10 million megatons."

38 posted on 09/25/2007 2:12:32 PM PDT by Thud
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