"Danish scientist J. P. Steffensen. The New Yorker magazine reported on the work of Steffensen and his team, and what it means for catastrophism:
The last Ice Age, known as the Wisconsin, supposedly occurred about 20,000 years ago (according to flawed old-earth assumptions). By drilling down into the glaciers that currently cover 80% of Greenland, North GRIP has provided geologists with a witness to the rapid transition out of the Wisconsin. The New Yorker reported:
The article noted that “scientists working on the Camp Century core [one of North GRIP’s locations] weren’t sure themselves what to make of what they had found” (Kolbert 2002: 34). Sigfus Johnsen, one of the scientists on the research team, commented, “It was too incredible, something we didn’t expect at all” (Kolbert 2002: 34).
Most important is the apparent cause of these catastrophic temperature fluctuations — a massive infusion of fresh water into the oceans. This coincides with the Genesis Flood, which included a gargantuan amount of rain, as well as fresh water from below the earth’s surface (....and the windows of heaven were opened. Gen. 7:11). The New Yorker reported:
Phrases such as “a sudden influx of freshwater” and “a swift and dramatic impact” certainly invoke images of the Biblical Flood. Moreover, as the article pointed out, the evidence for neo-catastrophism is so overwhelming that it has been embraced by nearly all geologists."
GerardWakefield
“Over the past decade or so, there has been a shift…in the way scientists regard the Earth’s climate. The new view
goes under the catchphrase ‘abrupt climate change,’ although it might more evocatively be called neo-catastrophism, after the old, Biblically inspired theories of flood and disaster….[I]t is supported by overwhelming empirical evidence, much of it gathered in Greenland. The Greenland ice cores have shown that it is a mistake to regard our own, relatively benign experience of the climate as the norm. By now, the adherents of neo-catastrophism include virtually every climatologist of any standing….[T]he earth’s climate has been in flux, changing not gradually, or even incrementally, but violently and without warning” (Kolbert 2002: 30).
The last Ice Age, known as the Wisconsin, supposedly occurred about 20,000 years ago (according to flawed old-earth assumptions). By drilling down into the glaciers that currently cover 80% of Greenland, North GRIP has provided geologists with a witness to the rapid transition out of the Wisconsin. The New Yorker reported:
“What the record [in the ice] shows is that it was a period of intense instability. The temperature did not rise slowly, or even steadily; instead, the climate flipped several times from temperate conditions back into those of an ice age, and then back again. Around fifteen thousand years ago, Greenland ABRUPTLY warmed by sixteen degrees IN FIFTY YEARS OR LESS. In one particularly traumatic episode some twelve thousand years ago, the mean temperature in Greenland shot up by fifteen degrees IN A SINGLE DECADE” (Kolbert 2002: 34).
The article noted that “scientists working on the Camp Century core [one of North GRIP’s locations] weren’t sure themselves what to make of what they had found” (Kolbert 2002: 34). Sigfus Johnsen, one of the scientists on the research team, commented, “It was too incredible, something we didn’t expect at all” (Kolbert 2002: 34).
Most important is the apparent cause of these catastrophic temperature fluctuations — a massive infusion of fresh water into the oceans. This coincides with the Genesis Flood, which included a gargantuan amount of rain, as well as fresh water from below the earth’s surface (....and the windows of heaven were opened. Gen. 7:11). The New Yorker reported:
“No known external force, or even any that has been
hypothesized, seems capable of yanking the temperature back and forth as violently, and as often, as these cores have shown to be the case. Somehow, the climate system — through some vast and terrible feedback loop — must, it is now assumed, be capable of generating its own instabilities. The most popular hypothesis is that THE OCEANS ARE RESPONSIBLE. Currents like the Gulf Stream transfer heat in huge quantities from the tropics toward the poles, and if this circulation pattern could somehow be shut off — by, say A SUDDEN INFLUX OF FRESHWATER — it would have A SWIFT AND DRAMATIC IMPACT” (Kolbert 2002: 35).
Phrases such as “a sudden influx of freshwater” and “a swift and dramatic impact” certainly invoke images of the Biblical Flood. Moreover, as the article pointed out, the evidence for neo-catastrophism is so overwhelming that it has been embraced by nearly all geologists."
GerardWakefield
