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How the Ice Age Shaped New York

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Long ago, the region lay under an ice sheet thousands of feet thick. It terminated abruptly in what are now the boroughs, leaving the city with a unique landscape.

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:
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Some 13,000 years ago, a large accumulation of icy water from melting glaciers was suddenly unleashed upstate. A towering wave of destruction crashed down through the Hudson gorge and proceeded to smash the southern end of the local moraine to smithereens.

“It was biblical,” Mr. Horenstein said. The wave created the Narrows, which now connects the Atlantic Ocean to one of the world’s largest natural harbors.
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.
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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.

What ?  The glaciers melted and so AGW is in doubt ?  This is moronic. 
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What ?  The glaciers melted and so AGW is in doubt ?  This is moronic.
Exactly. A "sudden warming" episode created the Verrazano Narrows, by a sudden release of melt-water from upstate New York as the glaciers retreated.
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Still a lot remains unknown about the mechanics of ice ages and inter-glacial periods, but there are some hypothesis out there. The general theory is the Earth has been cooling over hundreds of millions of years from continental drift. While CO2 being released from the southern ocean appears to be the major factor in ending the last ice age (global temperature lags behind CO2 concentration), that appears to be a reaction to an initial warming that is not as well understood.

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Exactly. A "sudden warming" episode created the Verrazano Narrows, by a sudden release of melt-water from upstate New York as the glaciers retreated.

The article says nothing about a 'sudden warming'.

Please stop wasting my time.
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Sun hits ancient glacier, forms pools & rivers of water that further melt glacier more quickly, therefore AGW doesn't exist?
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Sun hits ancient glacier, forms pools & rivers of water that further melt glacier more quickly, therefore AGW doesn't exist?


Not exactly that.  During the ice-age, advancing glaciers could create moraines or ice dams that changed the drainage and could form large lakes. If the volume of water in the lake became too much to be held back, these temporary dams could break and the result was a torrential flood.  I'm not familiar with the specifics of the New York ice-age situation, but in the western US, south of Kim Country, the southern tip of encroaching glaciers blocked rivers and caused a huge lake to form centered around Missoula Montana.  This lake broke through the ice dam, creating a flood of Biblical proportions that had dramatic effects on the landscape of Washington state as it surged towards the ocean.   And then the ice dam gradually reformed... and the whole cycle repeated. Again, and again. Possibly dozens of times.

(Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods )

It wasn't the result of sudden melting, it was the result of the interface where the southern end of the glacier started to interfere with lakes and rivers and change drainage patterns.

And no, none of this actually constitutes an argument against AGW.  It reminds us that much of our continent was covered by large glaciers that receded, which is something that most of us learned in elementary school.

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And no, none of this actually constitutes an argument against AGW.  It reminds us that much of our continent was covered by large glaciers that receded, which is something that most of us learned in elementary school.
If warming didn't end the Ice Age what did?
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If warming didn't end the Ice Age what did?

nobody is saying warming didn't end the ice age.
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The Ice Age was ended by orbital forcing and Milankovitch cycles.


Potholer54 aka Peter Hadfield has a great series of videos and this 13 minute video includes cites of papers and interviews with scientists, skeptics and even deniers.   I don't usually like videos as a means of explaining but there don't seem to be a lot of sources that break down the science and also address skeptics.



I like the series because it doesn't ascribe motives to people, even those who ignore obvious facts, and does find fault with both sides, eg. Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" film.  In retrospect, that film may have done a disservice to public discussions of climate change, however we could not hav e known that.   

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Well, it seems more snow doesn't equal more ice in the Antarctic.


https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44470208

Glad I moved from the flood plain to the top of the hill six years ago.
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Potholer54 aka Peter Hadfield has a great series of videos and this 13 minute video includes cites of papers and interviews with scientists, skeptics and even deniers.
If you are interested in understanding the skeptical position that is well founded by science try here:
https://judithcurry.com/2018/06/12/the-debate-mann-titley-moore-curry/

Alarmists prefer to argue the more ridiculous arguments presented by psuedo-skeptics and resort to naming calling and other ad-homs when presented with arguments that do have sound scientific basis. That does not mean that the planet is not warming or that CO2 does not present an unquantifiable risk. It just means the known unknowns and unknown unknowns are much bigger than alarmists claim and there is no reason to believe that reducing CO2 emissions today would necessarily result in more good than harm.
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If warming didn't end the Ice Age what did?

Your argument is apparently that since human activity didn't cause the end of the ice age, human activity couldn't be causing warming present-day either.

As Michael charitably put it, that's moronic.

It's like arguing that since human activity didn't cause the dinosaurs to go extinct, human activity couldn't be causing species to go extinct present-day either.

Good grief.

I'm not exactly sure where to rank this one on the stupid-scale, but it's somewhere in the same neighborhood as "it's cold today so global warming is obviously fake" and "if humans evolved from monkeys then how come there are still monkeys?"

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If you are interested in understanding the skeptical position that is well founded by science try here:

still pimpin' for Crazy Aunt Judy? Still? Deniers gotta deny!
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