Why Central Greenland Lacked Ice

Scientists recently discovered assorted bits and pieces of plants and insects in central Greenland via an ice core. They were bothered because it showed that this part of Greenland did not have ice a spell back. The radiometric dating method used can be viewed with suspicion.

They think that the microfossil is younger than the ice sheet by a substantial amount of time. The secular science industry is politically leftist at heart, they played the Global Warming and a Rise in Ocean Levels card — showing their lack of understanding of climate change.

Greenland glacier, Flickr / Stuart Williams (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Further, secularists are opposed to any possible explanations for observed items that are not from their uniformitarian camp. That means creation science evidence of the Genesis Flood as well as models for that, how it caused the Ice Age and climate change, and more are rejected out of hand. That is indeed unfortunate, as science is supposed to be a search for knowledge and evidence should be considered. Also, creationists have models that fit the data without rescuing devices.

Microfossil willow wood, fungi, insect body parts, and a poppy seed have been recovered from sediments at the bottom of central Greenland’s two-mile-long GISP2 ice core. This find is similar to an earlier discovery of such fossils found in basal sediments from the Camp Century ice core near Greenland’s northwest coast. These microfossils suggest that Greenland once had a tundra-like environment, with grasses but few trees. Because plants cannot grow directly in ice, this find greatly strengthens the argument that much of Greenland was ice-free relatively recently.

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