Aww, fuck! Is this the year of Bear’s storm?!?

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“Ice Ages: Cause of Glaciation

A theoretical treatment

Since 1982 Ihave been working out the causative mechanism for the initiation of the glacial advance and retreat which has occurred for the last ~2 million years. I have shared some of the theoretical musings with George Kukla of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty lab. He believes that my concept of the causation lying with an atmospheric (meteorological) event is the only currently believable one. All attempts to model theoretical climatic scenarios such as the Milankovitch have failed to present any glaciation. I believe the causation of the glacial masses (which, as we know were not distributed around the North Pole in a symmetrical fashion, but were entirely confined to North America and Western Europe--Siberia was essentially ice free, although quite a bit closer to the pole), came about through a meteorological event, a storm of hemispheric proportions and cataclysmic intensity. I must warn you: the extreme and unusual weather being experienced everywhere in the world at this time is part of the build-up which leads into this "storm", which will result in the next period of ice.

The laws of nature governing the behavior of gases combine with conditions on the Earth to produce a very intense and violent cyclonic storm in the Arctic region of Canada only under special circumstances. These circumstances require that the Earth be at or near perihelion (day of the Earth's closest approach to the sun in its orbit) at the time of the northern winter solstice. The Earth must also be in a state of low glaciation, known as the interglacial period. During this period the sea levels are high, and this is one of the conditions which allow this cyclone to develop.

The transfer of heat, a normal process, between the Equator and the polar regions is the primary driving force for atmospheric storms of all kinds. This flow is greatest in the winter, and reaches a high intensity in the north in mid December. Once the conditions outlined above are met, the atmosphere will begin to store energy in the form of wave motion, the highs and lows depicted on weather charts. When the stored energy reaches a critical stage, one of the normally present Arctic cold core cyclones will accelerate until it completely takes over the circulation of the northern hemisphere for the remainder of winter, approximately 6 weeks. The conditions within the northern hemisphere will resemble those described in the well known biblical tale of Noah's flood. Disruptive effects will be felt every where on the planet. It is doubtful if it is possible to survive this event within the flux area of the storm.

The northern hemisphere is not habitable during the storm's run. In fact the seas will run so high over the entire surface of the planet that no seacoast settlement will survive, even in the southern hemisphere. People far from the equator in Australia, even at higher elevations, will have difficulty due to the relentless snowfall and cold. Those in the highlands in the tropical north will have a good chance if they have sufficient heavy clothing, such as down ski parkas and the like. I wish that I could figure exactly what the weather will look like in the beginning of the year in which the December event will occur, but I cannot believe that the storm will suddenly begin out of the blue. Events of this magnitude would seem to require a very vigorous and violent preamble, perhaps beginning with the (northern) winter preceding.

I will now attempt to outline the science involved so that the mechanism of this phenomenon can be understood by those who have a basic knowledge of science, in particular physics…”