the ice over the North Pole has melted, for the first time in history
Jeepers, you guys don't get out much. I think the stumbling block for you is that you don't understand what history is. History is the recorded events of our world by men (or women). Nobody was recording any events 30,000 years ago, (or if they had an oral tradition is has been lost). Nobody ever recorded the North Pole melting before.
FYI, the geographic "North Pole" used to be in the area the Hawaiian Islands occupy today.
JEEPERS!!, you mean that you got out of grade school with that kind of understanding? The continents may shift around over the surface of the planet, put North has been North for a long long time, ever since the time that the moon first formed and began orbiting and stabilized the wobble found in some planets. Maybe you are thinking about the changing magnetic poles of the planet. The North pole has been in the North about 6 billion years.
the two small continents under the Antarctic were free of ice... once about 30,000 years ago and sometime during the Jurassic period as well
Jeepers!, I can't beleive what passes for education around here, maybe you should have attended a public school.. When the Antarctic was ice free it was not in the same place on the globe as it is today. It was in a temperate zone. The world as a whole only rotates east-west and does not move around from north to south more than a few miles. It is the continents that are floating around to new positions.
30,000 years ago? JEEPERS!! 30,000 years ago was near the height of the last ice age. There was tremendous ice over the continents not to mention pack ice. The continents may be moving, but they aren't zipping around like sports cars. The fastest moving continents go an inch or two a year. So in 30,000 years Antarctica may have moved 60,000 inches or less than a mile. (maybe 2000 miles since the jurrasic)
bad science -- politicized science
You said a mouthfull here. Jeepers, you must be willing to believe anything people tell you without checking it out. As long as it's Rush.
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