Playing semantics or what, Tiger? It is the remnants of the ice age. Yes....still part of the ice age.
I didn't deny anything.
Better take some Midol. partner.
Not a pill popper, but definitely a climate "truther."
Parroting "the science" on this issue is rather pathetic. The answer to the question "what is an ice age" stares us in the face every day. The original definition of ice age was "coined" before we knew the tectonic plates move. It was thought that in an "ice age" that Antarctic ice extended over ocean and encompassed the southern tip of South America, which was glaciated by ice age glacier roughly 20 million years ago. That "brilliant" conclusion assumed land does not move. It actually does. You can see here where South America and Antarctica broke apart, and date it to roughly when SA had glacier on the southern tip...
The TransAntarctic and Andes Mountain ranges are actually the same range formed by the same tectonic plate movement, as when AA and SA broke off from Africa, they were attached until the above split, which happens with motion and momentum vectors on a sphere. So, no Antarctic ice never crossed the ocean. We know from AA and Greenland that ice does not grow out over ocean, it breaks off. Antarctica is a 40+ million year old ice age. AA has 70 million year old dinosaur fossils, because 70 million years ago, AA was not on the south pole, but halfway to South Africa from where it is now. Hopefully you do not believe those dinosaurs lived on top of 2+ miles of ice at -60F....
On the other side, we had 2 mile thick ice age glacier on North America down to Indiana 1 million years ago, with final glaciers in Indiana melting some 10k years ago. The "warmers" have tried, laughably, to re-write what was North American Ice Age into a non-stop Dennis Quaid action movie, where ice ages happen in days... they actually don't, they are... glacial...
Greenland on the other hand just froze...
top of Greenland completely green 2 million years ago
Analysis of two-million-year-old ancient environmental DNA from the Kap København Formation in North Greenland shows there was an open boreal forest with diverse plant and animal species, of which several taxa have not previously been detected at the site, representing an ecosystem that has no...
www.nature.com
center of Greenland went from forest to ice age 400-800k years ago
Greenland was once carpeted in lush forests, a new study shows.
www.livescience.com
And of course the Vikings called it GREENland when they first settled it because south of the mountains at the top of the southern tip, Greenland was GREEN until the 1400s when the advancing ice age glacier froze them off...
So Greenland froze while North America thawed, at the same time with the same atmosphere with the same amount of Co2 in the atmosphere...
So what are ICE AGES and how do they start and stop??
An ICE AGE is a continent specific even that begins when land gets to within approximately 600 miles to a pole. There, the annual snowfall ceases to fully melt in the summer, and hence starts to STACK. Greenland started stacking in the past 2 million years. North America has thawed except for Ellesmere Island, which was not an island 50 million years ago.
North America is moving SW tectonically - it moved out of that "ice age" range of 600 miles to a pole.
Greenland on the other hand just moved into that 600 miles to a pole, all because of the angle of the fault at the center bottom of the Atlantic, the same fault that pushed AA on to the South Pole....
The definition of ice age you use is wrong, and deliberately so, because if Greenland froze while North America thawed, which is clearly the case, then Co2 had nothing to do with either event, and hence the panic re-write of history where "ice ages" are scary and take days to cover continents....
www.nbcnews.com
