The current ice age cycle (at the risk of duplicating another's answer, as I've only read this far into the thread) is about 2 million years old. The currently held myth is that the icecap in Antarctica is 20 million years old (formerly held to be 30 million years old, as in the NY Times absurdity about the NORTH polar ice melting back in 1999 or so) but in fact the fossils of temperate species found a couple hundred miles from the south pole are less than 3 million years old.
In the spirit of Aristotle, who stated that rocks do not fall from the sky but are carried from elsewhere by the winds, one future Nobel laureate claimed that the fossils must have been carried there -- presumably from South America, across open ocean -- by the wind.
I guess we know what kind of wind that sort of idea really is. ;')
Here's a new title from an author that just can't seem to bring himself to reject the New Lysenkoism, which is global warming / greenhouse effect.
In the spirit of Aristotle, who stated that rocks do not fall from the sky As late as 1890 rocks did not fall from the sky, and it didn't matter how many French farmers showed up at the Institute with burnt rocks they picked out of their fields after seeing them fall out of the sky.
