March
4, 2009
Jonathan Gray
ARCHAEOLOGY NEWSFLASH NO.
139
WATERSKIER IN THE ICE
“Can you believe it!” shouted my fellow traveler.
“Look,
look! There’s a water-skiier!”
“Can’t be!” I retorted.
“Yes, yes, look!”
The very word “water-skiier” was enough to awaken a
stampede. Everyone crammed against the starboard
windows. Our plane dipped down to a thousand feet.
Sure enough, behind a powerboat, on a small stretch
of water
skimmed some guy in a wet suit.
“It’s minus sixty out there!” someone exclaimed.
There was good reason for the fuss. This was
Antarctica,
you see. Just down the coast a 200 mile-per-hour
blizzard
was raging, whipping up a deadly ice cloud. But
here, in
frozen sunshine, skiied a Frenchman.
I recalled with amusement that some years ago the
French
government had passed a law for its Adelie Land
territory in
Antarctica, exempting its inhabitants from military
service –
when its only inhabitants were penguins!
Now Antarctica had a French research base. And we
knew,
dropping out of the sky unannounced, that we were
their
first visual contact with the outside world in six
months.
Antarctica… Between the stark white ice cliffs and
the
black of the ocean below us appeared a ribbon of
milky
blue, where the ice plunged under the water. It was
so
beautiful, I just gasped.
Yet it is a bleak and deadly land. That water-skiier
could
not dry off under a tropical palm.
Not any more.
A WORLDWIDE WARM CLIMATE
There is definite evidence that our planet once
presented a
warm subtropical climate from
pole
to pole.
Corals, which grow only in warm waters (of at least
20
degrees Centigrade) once grew near the
poles. Canada,
Alaska, Newfoundland, Greenland and
Spitzbergen contain
fossil coral.
Coal seams are also found near the poles. The vast
coal beds
are simply fossilised remains of trees and plants.
The remains of animals now confined to warm regions
are
found all over the earth.
VEGETATION AND ANIMALS
Antarctica: In 1976, an Italian expedition
discovered away
below the ice - a
petrified forest!
Antarctica: The Admiral Byrd expedition found and
photographed a mountain composed totally of coal,
indicating former lush growth here. They also found
ancient
palm trees under the ice.
Antarctica: In 1968, in the mountains of central
Antarctica,
an American expedition came upon the jaw bone of a
crocodile-like amphibian (called a labyrinthodont),
as
well as skeletons of other animals - creatures that
could have
survived only in a warm to hot climate. Similar
finds were
made again in 1986.
Northern polar regions: Abundant remains of
tropical
animals have been uncovered in icy Greenland, Alaska
and
Siberia.
In these same northern polar regions are numerous
fossil
trees: beech, myrtle, laurel, breadfruit, cinnamen,
oak,
walnut, banana,
grape
vines, and so on. And from a line
north of Labrador across to Alaska:
giant
sequoias.
Spitzbergen and Greenland now shiver in darkness for
half
of the year and lie almost continuously under snow
and ice.
Yet a rich, temperate flora once covered these icy
wastes in
the
Arctic Ocean. Fossil remains of magnolias,
fig
trees,
palms, arborescent ferns (which are typically
tropical)
and animals from warm climates have been discovered…
also pines, firs, spruces, cypresses, elms, hazels
and
water
lilies.
South polar region:
Redwood forests are found buried
under massive ice deposits. These towering giants
(now
typically found in the north-west of the U.S.A.)
once
flourished in many diverse parts of the world, as
evidenced
by many coal and fossil finds.
Back to the
Arctic Circle: Here are two very interesting
island groups - the
New
Siberian Islands and the
Spitzbergen Islands. Remarkable things have been
reported by explorers who have been there.
Immense frozen gravel mounts were discovered to have
entombed within them entire fruit trees with the
fruit still
on them. In the New Siberian Islands, whole palm
trees
have been found, with their leaves and fruit.
You know, tropical animals cannot live in icy
water.
Neither can sub-tropical plants ripen seeds and sow
themselves in arctic conditions.
ONE CLIMATE WORLDWIDE
“If we listen to the unequivocal testimony of
tropical plants
and animals found away to the north and even
within the
arctic regions, we must declare that geology knows
only one
climate until this sudden change came; and this
astonishing
climate seems to have been practically uniform over
the entire
globe.” (George
McCready Price, The New Geology, p.654)
“There is but one climate known to the ancient
fossil world
as revealed by the plants and animals entombed in
the rocks,
and the climate was a mantle of spring like
loveliness which
seems to have prevailed continuously over the whole
globe.
(Alfred Russell Wallace, The Geographical
Distribution of
Animals, Vol 1, p. 277)
“When nearly the same plants are found in
Greenland and
Guinea; when the same species, now extinct,
are met with
of equal development at the equator as at the pole,
we cannot
but admit that at this period the temperature of the
globe was
nearly alike everywhere.
“There seems to have been then only one climate over
the whole globe.” (Sir William Dawson, geologist)
Overall, the climate of
Planet Earth was mild and spring like,
perfect from pole to pole.
THIS ANCIENT WORLD EXISTED
WITHIN THE MEMORY OF MANKIND
There is good reason to believe that this world of
perfect
climate existed within the memory of the human race.
The traditions of ancient humanity preserve the
recollection
of it.
The ancient Chinese say that before the great
Catastrophe,
“There were no impetuous winds, nor excessive
rains. The
sun and moon, without ever being clouded, furnished
a light
purer and brighter than now.”
Numerous ancient traditions contain details of the
world
“before the Flood”, details which seem to stem from
a
common origin: the original perfect state; a
glorious land;
long age spans; but growing disobedience to
spiritual laws –
and eventual destruction.
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Jonathan Gray
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