EPISODE 48 | Ice Ice Baby: Songs of Ice & Snow

Baby, it’s cold outside. That sentiment is not just part of a kind of rapey Xmas song, but a fact brought about by the ROUND Earth orbiting the sun in the way that it does and tilting on its axis. To mangle a phrase – winter has come.

And with winter comes ice and snow, at least at the latitudes closer to the poles. And even here, in this brittle transparent crystalline solid, usually water, you can snow shovel up some conspiracy theories.

We’ll look at nature used as an insult, snow that burns, the World Ice Theory, Ice Ages that are coming (or already here), buried mountains, Nazis in Antarctica, alien vegetables, Easter Island and more.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:00 - Ice Ice Baby - types of ice


2. 04:45 - Snowball Fight - snow terms, snarl words, snowclones, broflakes


3. 10:32 - What a Snow Job - fake snow, polar vortexes, burning snow 


4. 16:34 - The Cold Sun - global warming pseudoscience


5. 20:05 - Ice Ages Now & Then - global cooling, fake Time covers, Robert Felix, the World Ice Theory, Nazis


6. 28:37 - Baby, es ist kalt draußen - Neuschwabenland, Antarctic Nazi UFOs 


7. 34:21 - The Ends of the Earth - Antarctica facts & fictions, H.P. Lovecraft, Planet X, Easter Island, Google Maps, the UN flag & more

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• Q: Could Kurt Vonnegut’s “Ice-9 catastrophe” happen?


• Ghost Ice


• Snowclones article on The Conversation


• Fake Snow articles: The Independent, Popular Mechanics, Politifact, Reuters, Unilad, Slate, Insider and European Scientist


• The NASA data conspiracy theory and the cold sun


• Time Magazine cover, April 3, 2006


• The Real TIME Cover Behind That Fake 'Ice Age' Report


• That ’70s myth—did climate science really call for a “coming ice age?” on Ars Technica


• How the "Global Cooling" Story Came to Be in Scientific American 


• How Trump gets his fake news on Poilitico 


• Robert Felix on the Encyclopedia of American Loons 


• Why Hitler and other Nazis thought the world was really made of ice on Big Think


• The Nazis Believed In A Universe Full Of Ice Just To Spite Einstein on Gizmodo


• Hitler's Frozen Base


• Weird Antarctica - the truth behind secret Nazi bases and aliens


• Neumayer Station III


• Planet X & 2012: The Myth of the Southern Approach


• Antarctica's Biggest Mysteries: Secrets of a Frozen World on Live Science


• Hidden Antarctic Secrets - All is Revealed what "they" don't want you to know on Cool Antarctica (!)


• Google Earth photo sparks conspiracy theories about ‘400-foot ice ship’ in Antarctica

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