https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/882EB4EAFFC0A047D81202E95D74F00D/S002214300003121Xa.pdf/on_the_hypothesis_of_ice_ages_suggested_by_captain_e_s_gernet.pdf
Apparently "The ice lichens, a new theory of ice ages" is a long-lost book containing much of what I have speculated in this thread, I am not surprised it was eliminated from history considering it exposed what is perhaps mankind's greatest existential threat. It is tragic that actual research into this field has been buried since the 1950s, but unsurprising if the assertions of Captain Gernet do turn out to be correct (which I believe they will).
The article talks about the publications history. It was always rather obscure.
Many people have been looking into icesheets and ice ages from many angles and science fields which lots more observing and computing power since the 1950s.
Gernet appeals for the necessity of mankind destroying the Greenland ice sheet.
So you agree with that too?
Maybe we have been working on that in secret inspired by the captains book all this time?
Anyway it was an interesting read.
Of his points:
i) Normal condition of the Earth is no ice ages.
Our modern normal condition is with ice ages and our present culture evolved with them
ii) about the origin is the same as i) By Gernet and Stokes so that is ok.
iii) glaciers and ice sheets are a self regulating process and they are like disease of the planet
They are not like a disease
So this loops back to one. I read on to find what he would say about the retreat part but there is not much but this which you probably like:
The retreat stage lasts up to the moment when accumulation exceeds melting which occurs after the Arctic Ocean becomes free of ice. Then the above-mentioned cycle begins again. This way it works when the conditions remain more or less the same so waxing and waning due to Milankovitch cycles.
But on a grander scale geologic changes are more important for turning them on or off.
And that includes our puny humans PETM beating run.
I am not surprised it was eliminated from history considering it exposed what is perhaps mankind's greatest existential threat.Anyway i think it´s interesting that you seem to think glaciation is the greatest threat. Always made for some nice niche entertainment.