Methane Ice

Excerpts from A Possible Mechanism for Ice Age and Global Warming Cycles
By Stephen Dwyer

Recent discoveries about the existence of a vast band of Methane Ice along the world's continental Slopes, at approx. 800 meters depth, have revolutionized the theories of the Ice Age and Global Warming Cycles. The accumulation of Methane Ice leads to Ice Ages and the rapid melting and effervescence of this ice and gas leads to and equally rapid Global Warming.

The last series of Ice Ages all follow a similar pattern of gradual cooling for many centuries and the formation of vast Ice Caps in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the Southern Hemisphere to a much lessor extent due probably to much less land mass. Then the Ice Ages end very rapidly, in fact in less than 50 years! This Global Warming is so rapid that the graphs of all the available paleotemperature indicators show the same rapid warming of up to 10 degrees Centigrade in a very short time. This rapid warming causes catastrophic melting of the Ice Caps and flooding across the Continents. It also raised sea level 300 feet after the last Ice Age ended from 14,000 years ago in North America and 10,500 years ago in Europe. This difference is probably due to the differences between the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean temperature and pressure gradients and the influence of the Gulf Stream on European weather.