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- Younger Dryas Myth-Busting: Flash-Frozen Mammoths Edition Tue, 27 Jul 21, 7:00pmGuest “Pleistocene elephant hunting” by David Middleton “The body of this mammoth was found perfectly preserved in the Siberian tundra with food still in its mouth and stomach indicating that…
- Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Takes Another Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound Sat, 12 Jun 21, 7:00pmGuest “Really?” by David Middleton H/T to my friend Brian Pratt…Introduction For starters, the author appears to totally fail to grasp the principle of uniformitarianism… Since its introduction in...
- Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Takes Another Hit Sun, 2 Aug 20, 3:00amGuest “whatever” by David Middleton Texas cave sediment upends meteorite explanation for global cooling7 hours agoBaylor University Texas researchers from the University of Houston, Baylor University and Texas...
- New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for Earth Tue, 28 Jul 20, 3:00pmWhat kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?
- Poking a Hole in the Latest Younger Dryas Impact Paper (Uniformitarian Impact Craters, Part Trois) Tue, 15 May 18, 7:26amGuest shoot-down by David Middleton Preface In my previous two posts on uniformitarian impact craters, we examined the pitfalls of drawing cartoons on Google Earth images without ever looking at the geology and how the Carolina...
- Who knew? Plants are ‘heavy water’ rain gauges Tue, 21 Jan 14, 11:31amFrom the GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre and the Varved D2O department: The water cycle amplifies abrupt climate change The role of the hydrological cycle during abrupt temperature changes is of prime...
- Rapid climate changes in the younger Dryas, but with a 120 year time lag Thu, 5 Dec 13, 4:45amFrom GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre Regional climate changes can be very rapid. A German-British team of geoscientists now reports that such a rapid climate change occurred in different regions with a...
- Multiple, Intense, Abrupt Late Pleistocene Warming And Cooling: Implications For Understanding The Cause Of Global Climate Change Mon, 3 Jun 13, 4:00amGuest essay by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The results of oxygen isotope measurements from ice cores in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets several decades ago...
- Multiple, Intense, Abrupt Late Pleisitocene Warming And Cooling: Implications For Understanding The Cause Of Global Climate Change Mon, 3 Jun 13, 4:00amGuest essay by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The results of oxygen isotope measurements from ice cores in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets several decades ago...
- Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun? Fri, 24 May 13, 5:27pmGuest Post by Dan Johnston I have been following the proposed collision theory for the onset of the Younger Dryas for a number of years with considerable interest as it explains so much in a relatively straightforward fashion,...
- Widespread evidence of cosmic impact documented – likely cause of the Younger Dryas cool climate episode Wed, 22 May 13, 8:41amFrom the University of California – Santa Barbara some paleoclimatology without the need to see hockey sticks. Comprehensive analysis of impact spherules supports theory of cosmic impact 12,800 years ago (Santa Barbara,...
- Claim: Trigger for Earth’s last big freeze identified Tue, 6 Nov 12, 4:39pmFrom the University of Massachusetts at Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – For more than 30 years, climate scientists have debated whether flood waters from melting of the enormous Laurentide Ice Sheet, which ushered in the last...
- ‘Counterintuitive finding suggests that unexpected factors may govern a glacier’s response to climate change’ Fri, 14 Sep 12, 7:14amFrom the University at Buffalo, new evidence that large ice sheets can grow/disappear quickly on decadal scales in response to regional temperature changes...
- ‘We don’t believe the ice cores can be interpreted purely as a signal of temperature’ Tue, 26 Jun 12, 5:45pmFrom the University of Wisconsin: Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze by Chris Barncard Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a...
- The Intriguing Problem Of The Younger Dryas—What Does It Mean And What Caused It? Wed, 20 Jun 12, 6:00amThis is a follow up posting to Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! Guest post by Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University. The Younger Dryas was a period of rapid cooling in the late Pleistocene...