Canadian Politics Today

How the Ice Age Shaped New York
The New York Times may not realize it but last week they published a powerful argument against the concept of Anthropocentric Global Warming ("AGW"). New York City forms the southern edge of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.



As the article explains, the ice sheet expanded as far as it could before encountering warmer weather, or more likely a higher sun angle. The glaciers retreated, and the warming was apparently as if not more sudden than the events of recent years that have caused much anxiety about AGW. Excerpt:While the jury is out on AGW, man in all likelihood cause this warming-triggered flood, or the warming.

For more, see On a Clear Day You Can See an Ice Age: One Journalist’s View From the Upper West Side.