The Energy Paradox Was First Identified in 1973. It Has Never Been Resolved.

The energy paradox at the heart of glacial termination is more precise than most people realize - and Randall makes the mathematics explicit. The greatest concentrations of thermal energy available on Earth are the subtropical deserts like the Sahara and the tropical oceans. Scientists calculated how long it would take to melt the entire North American ice mass if it could be moved to the most energy-rich environment on the planet - the tropical ocean. The answer was three times longer than the ice actually took to disappear.

That is not a minor discrepancy. The ice melted three times faster than the maximum thermal energy available from any known terrestrial source could account for. The problem was significant enough that a dedicated scientific conference was convened in 1973 to address it - the energy paradox. A follow-up conference in 1975 attempted to resolve what the first had identified. Neither succeeded. Randall states that plainly - the energy paradox has not been resolved. The question of where the thermal energy came from to melt that volume of ice that quickly remains open - and Randall’s research has consistently pointed toward the only two explanations that could plausibly account for it. A cosmic impact. Or the sun.

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