The Earth's Shifting Crust by Charles Hapgood - wire of information

Wallace describes the flora of the Miocene. He points out
that in Asia and in North America this flora was composed
of species that apparently required a climate similar to that
of our southern states, yet it is also found in Greenland at
70 N. Lat., where it contained many of the same trees that
were then growing in Europe. He adds:
But even farther North, in Spitsbergen, 78 and 79 N. Lat. and
one of the most barren and inhospitable regions on the globe, an
almost equally rich fossil flora has been discovered, including several
of the Greenland species, and others peculiar, but mostly of the same
genera. There seem to be no evergreens here except coniferae, one of
which is identical with the swamp-cypress (Taxodium distichum) now
found living in the Southern United States. There are also eleven
pines, two Libocedrus, two Sequoias, with oaks, poplars, birches,
planes, limes, a hazel, an ash, and a walnut; also water lilies, pond
weeds, and an Iris altogether about a hundred species of flowering
plants. Even in Grinnell Land, within 8i/ degrees of the pole, a
similar flora existed . . . (446:182-84).
It has been necessary to dwell at length on the evidence of
the warm polar climates, because this is important for the
discussion that follows. Too often, in theoretical discussions,
the specific nature of the evidence tends to be lost sight of.
3. Universal Temperate ClimatesA Fallacy
The evidence I have presented above (and a great deal more,
omitted for reasons of space) has long created a dilemma for
geology. Only two practical solutions have offered themselves.
One is to shift the crust, and the other is to suggest that
climatic zones like the present have not always existed. It is
often suggested that the climates have been very mild virtu-
ally from pole to pole, at certain times. The extent to which
this theory is still supported is eloquent evidence of the
power of the "dogma" of the permanence of the poles. When
one inquires as to the evidence for the existence of such
warm, moist climates, a peculiar situation is revealed. There
is no evidence except the fossil evidence that the theory is