Re: AIG comment on the Ice Age

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Mervin Bitikofer wrote:

> One of my students brought this up recently. The facts (snow depth,
> etc) don't exactly match yours below, and I didn't doublecheck their
> information, but according to the authors at this link:
> http://www.answersincreation.org/argument/G531_creation_science.htm
> it was simply a matter of having landed in an area of high annual
> precipitation. Other sites in Greenland barely got any snow cover in
> several decades time -- it takes more than simple math of depth to
> determine age, and nobody had ever claimed that the cores in question
> were supposed to represent thousands of years (except maybe some excited
> YECs).
>
> --merv
>

I have found some statistics on precipitation in Greenland that show the
extreme difference between North and South. At Prins Christian Sound
(latitude 60.02 N) the annual precipitation is 97.72 inches. At Thule
(latitude 77.29 N) the annual precipitation is 4.29 inches. Greenland
extends several degrees above 80 N. The map shows that the extreme north
end is unglaciated, which I presume is due to its extreme dryness.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Fri May 5 17:45:58 2006