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May 2013
- Touchdown!: YDB team publishes best paper yet in PNAS
- Great Book: The Comets of God
- Sheridan Cave: A Bad Day for Flatheads and Beaver
April 2013
March 2013
- Extraordinary Evidence and Inexplicable Ignorance: Bunch (2012) and The Bos (2013)
- 3D Space Navigator and Carolina Bay LiDAR Data from Cintos Research: A Match Made In Heaven
- Separated at Birth? Worldwide Dragon Myths and Meteor T(r)ails
- Linked?: Andrew Cooper on Feb 15 Asteroid and Russian Meteor
- The Song of Ullikummi: Grondine unpacks Bronze Age myth revealing Courty Impact Event
- Newbies: Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago (2012)
- Korkino 1:10
- Cosmic Soil in Human History II: Marie-Agnes Courty's Dirty Work Through The Years
- Younger Dryas Event in California
February 2013
- Earth to The Bos and Phil: The true cross-sectional area of the potentially dangerous material is greater than that of the original comet itself
- More "Current Events"
- Live Link: Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society
- The H-Bomb: Henry Howard's Elephant
- Cosmic Soil in Human History I: Germanic hoard storms 2011 Lunar and Planetary Conference
- Never Forget: The Rupununi and Rio Curuca Events
- Le Bos, mais pourquoi pas la France?!
- Salt in the Wound: The Bos Not Reading Papers
- Dear Mr. Singer: An Open Letter to Sandia Labs
- Steamed: Ted Bunch From the Heart On Boslough and Scott
- From Space with Love: February Fireballs Nothing New
- Napier on the Recent Russian Blast, Phil Plait, the Harvard Discovery of Platinum in The Younger Dryas -- and Intellectual Integrity
- Bolide Shockwave Injures 1000+ in Russia: Black Swan -- or I Told You So?
- Rise of the Zombie: Harvard Discovers Evidence for Major Earth Impact at Younger Dryas Initiation (~12,875 BP)
- Napier: Not So Fast Bos....
- Typical: Boslough ignores LeCompte
- Holy Hagiography!: Boslough "Jonesed" By Sandia Labs
January 2013
December 2012
- Comet ISON, Newton's Great Comet of 1680, Solar Flares, and the 775 AD Eichler Event
- Mayan Match: Baillie discovers correlation between ice core chemistry spikes and Mayan Long Count Calendar
November 2012
- Clovis Comet paper #1 read article in Geology
- Honorable Mention: Clovis Comet in Natural History
- Davias at Charlotte GSA: The Poster
- Exaggerated Reports of My Demise
September 2012
- 2012 Slow Green Fireball Train in UK: Satellite or Meteor Break-Up?
- Unfiltered: Surovell - Holliday in PNAS, 2009
- Breaking: Ducks join Gamecocks with press release calling out Surovell, et al. 2009
- PNAS: Five-Year study rips spear from back of YDB hypothesis
- Again, again, again, again -- and AGAIN!: Jupiter impacts continue to defy NASA estimates
- Charlotte: Carolina Bays at GSA in November
August 2012
- County Kerry Ireland's Medieval Big Wave
- Beyond Compelling: Evidence Worldwide of Baillie Year Catastrophes In Human History
- Summer Grab Bag
July 2012
- Younger Dryas Boundary Team flash mobbed by critics in PNAS: Great response
- The Baillie Years: Catastrophic impacts during human times
- Shiva...
- Now Showing: Tusk TV
- Clovis Comet on BBC and The History Channel
June 2012
- Lee Bement on the Clovis Comet
- Another informative blog!?!
- Chilton Raved at Watts Up
- Finally Available in PNAS: Very High Temperature Impact Melt Products: Evidence for Cosmic Impacts \ Airbursts 12,900 years ago
- Very High Temp Impact Melt Products at 12.9 ka: The PNAS Abstract
- Kerr on Limb: Science writer misleads peeps in public post
- Calling All Crickets: Knight Science Journalism Tracker Shouts-Out the YDB Hypothesis
- PNAS: Very High Temperature Impact Melt Products: Evidence for Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts at Younger Dryas
- Carolina Bay Poster Now Available!
May 2012
- Dutch Diamonds Demand Extraordinary Explanations
- Bronze Age Catastrophe Layer Discovered In Irish Shell Midden
- Faint Praise: Nanodiamonds Confirmed in Usselo Horizon, Dutch Sci Nonetheless Prevaricate and Backflip
April 2012
- New Beast!
- Now Available: Pigati, Wetlands and Volcanoes
- Breaking: New PNAS Study Claims Black Mat Blast Materials Common To Wetlands
- Elevated Iridium at Younger Dryas in England
- Part I: Howard Recounts YDB and Carolina Bay Odyssey in Pleistocene Coalition News
- Davias' Astonishing Presentation to Asheville GSA on Carolina Bay origin
- Astonishing Image of Carolina Bays
March 2012
- YDB impact researchers cite confirmations in recent PNAS paper
- Davias Presents to Geological Society of America on Carolina Bays
- Mars impact plume?
- Beeb Radio: Boslough and Kennett discuss new evidence from Mexico
- No Bull: Wall Street Journal's Matt Ridley Covers Clovis Comet
- Reading Material from Sunken Civ at Free Republic
- YDB Co-Author Profile: Paul S. DeCarli
- Unattributed Silly Cartoon
- UCSB Press Release
- Tree falls in forest and one hand claps: Science press picks up Mexican Black Mat study
- PNAS: New evidence from Central Mexico supporting the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis
February 2012
- Alaska Big Wave at 12,900?
- Seek and Ye Shall Find: ET material confirmed in Murray Springs Black Mat
- Abstract
- Yet More Game Change
January 2012
- Carolina Bays and Peat Fires
- Hurricane or Tsunami?: North Carolina coast turns to Tar Hell around time of Magna Carta
- East To West?: Jersey Big Wave at 12,900 ya
December 2011
- West to East?: Belgian Tsunami at the Lower Younger Dryas Boundary
- Field Report: Andronikov Expedition to Examine Black Mat
- Game Changer: Independent Confirmation of ET Materials in Arizona and Dutch Black Mats
- Adoration and the Comet from Giotto
- Trust but Verify: Independent confirmations of the Younger Dryas Impact Boundary
November 2011
October 2011
- Carolina Bay Tour de Force: Davias’ startles Geological Society of America with Delmarva Marvels and other wonders
- Near miss!
- Vedic Comet
- Clovis Comet Crater?
September 2011
July 2011
- Layer upon Layer: Dallas Abbott finds cosmic tsunami debris, well inland, throughout Holocene
- 3,732,468 viewers can’t be wrong
- Wickramasinghe: Death from Above
- [Update] Swiss Kiss: Nanodiamonds and Iridium independently confirmed at Bern INQUA session on Younger Dryas climate crash
June 2011
- Skeptic Speaks: A Personal Essay from Vance Holliday on the Clovis Comet
- Upcoming Bern INQUA Conference packed with Younger Dryas Boundary studies
- Face-off: PBS moderates on-line debate between proponents and detractors of Younger Dryas cosmic impact
- Allen West smeared by Dalton, former Nature writer
May 2011
- Blast from past: YD team member diciplined by Golden State geo board in 2002
- Full Paper: Paleo-indian decline at Younger Dryas
- Wipe-out: New paper details continental human population decline during Younger Dryas in North America
April 2011
- Black Mat: Third paper details Venezuelan occurrence
- Surfs Up: Cosmic Tsunami strikes Big Apple, leaves diamond calling card
- Once Again: Another large modern crater found in North America
- Tusk Exclusive: Kloosterman hits brick wall, "Secret Science" brings shame to Dutch
March 2011
- Cosmic Blowdown?: Ancient Buried Cypress Forest in South Carolina
- Chichen Itza: Its Obvious
- Clovis Age Crater Found in Canada: That Makes Three
- Skeptics: Pinter paper in
- http://cosmictusk.com/skeptics-a-requiem/
February 2011
- CCNet Reprint: Grondine Essay On Collapse of Roman Empire
- 6th Century Wasteland: Secret Volcano or Cosmic Interaction?
- Thomas Kuhn Would Be Proud: L.A. Museum of Natural History Displays Paradigm Shift
- Wolly Mammoths.....in Ancient Egypt?
January 2011
- Southeastern Archaeology: Carolina Bays Time Capsules of Culture and Climate Change
- Video: Evidence of Clovis Black Mat located in Ontario
- Plato: A Man Before (and after) His Time
- TV Show: Clovis Comet
December 2010
- Vindication: Critic finds Nanodiamonds in Younger Dryas Boundary Claeys
- Reader Spotlight: Terry Egolf
- Reconnaissance: Tusk Boots Hit Ground with iPad at Butterfly Bays
- Pic of the Day: Davias and Perigee Zero stun planet with Carolina Bay image
- Brazoria Women: Victim of the Younger Dryas Event?
- Heart of the Carolina Bays
- Book: A Chapter in the History of Meteorites
- Unclassified: Dr. Edward Teller and the anomalous nature of Green Fireballs
- The Rupununi event
- Mini Tunguska: The Rio Curuca Impact, Brazil, 1930
- Fireballs from Heaven: To be or not to be?
- Kobres: The Case of Carbonaceous Catastrophes
- Walt Whitman, Gustav Hahn, and the Great Fireball Train of 1913
- The Paper: Green Fireballs and Ball Lightning
- BBC: Ball lightning 'may explain UFOs'
- BBC on Green Fireball comet
- Fireball spewing Comet Schwassman-Wachmann returning in 2011
- Australian Comet to Fireball paper here
- Comet Schwassmann–Wachmann spawned Australian Fireballs in 2006
November 2010
- http://cosmictusk.com/2319/
- Geomorphology Of Possible Younger Dryas Boundary Impact Structure A Cosmic Impact and Distal Ejecta Manifold
- Carolina Bays at Perigee Zero
- Judacallah Rock
- Science Trip
- New Carolina Bay visualization tool from Perigee Zero
- RIP: Brian G. Marsden 1937 - 2010
- Cosmopier
- Dragons
- California missile: A bolide?
- Bob Kobres' A Nickel Pickle: Part D!
October 2010
- Vance Holliday responds further to Firestone
- Albert Durer's 'Apocalypes'
- Holliday-Meltzer!
- Tusk Exclusive: Vance Holliday informal critique of the Younger Dryas Boundary theory
September 2010
- Recent pic
- Bob Kobres: Comets and the Bronze Age Collapse
- Article: Mini-Ice Age debate rocking geology world
- Chilled Diamonds Shine Light on Comet Collision
- YDB press release: Scientists discover nanodiamonds in Greenland ice
- Tusk ends big week in the Big Easy: Fresh posts coming
- Press Release: Daulton, Pinter and Scott publish finding NO diamonds in Younger Dryas Boundary layer
- AMQUA pic
- Program Note
- Tusk Exclusive: Bunch makes brief comments on Daulton paper
August 2010
- Journal of Glaciology: Discovery of nanodiamond rich layer in the Greenland ice sheet
- PNAS: No evidence of nanodiamonds in Younger Dryas sediments to support an impact event
- Ellenberger to NASA's Morrison: Gauntlet Thrown
- SENATOR NELSON ON BOARD FOR DEALING WITH POSSIBLE 2022 IMPACT HAZARD
- New Paper: Greenland Ice sheet shows diamond rich layer at Younger Dryas Boundary
- Again, again, again and again: Jupiter hit far more often than NASA models predict
- Breaking: PNAS paper finds no diamonds; Claims YD team mistaken in identification
- Clayton's Craters and other cool stuff in the Sahara
- Hustle Up Workshop: Week's notice for NASA NEO confab
July 2010
- Shootout: YDB hypothesis debate at Laramie AMQUA conference
- Moon to Earth: New LRO Lunar Crater Analysis has potential to revise impact frequency for Terrafirma
- The Very Small Kamil Crater Discovered In Egypt
- Rohrabacher keeps eyes to the sky while others pols dawdle
- Video: Man cares for flowers, birds on Carolina Bay Lake Waccamaw
- Tusk drops all pretense of objectivity, joins YD team for rodeo in Laramie
- Breaking: WISE mission misleads public with confusing comet stats
- Hill surprise as Senate panel suddenly backs Obama on Asteroid Mission; Same Day WISE finishes first pass of sky
- Video: Lake Cheko at the Tunguska blast site
- A Nickel Pickle Part C
- A Nickel Pickle Part B
- A Nickel Pickle: The Problems of Building High Tech from a Meteoroid Wreck
- The Square Bays of Bolivia
June 2010
- NASA planetary protection chief admits: Impact estimates flawed
- NatGeo gets it wrong on Carbon Spherules and Nanodiamonds
- Shhhhhh!
- Tusk Scrambled: Low probability, high consequence
- Pinter and Scott's Cheap Shot sweeps diamond evidence under rug in rush to undermine heresy
- Breaking: Dirt balls -- not diamonds?
- Younger Dryas Impact debate rocking to and fro' in PNAS
- THREEPEET!!!: Jupiter takes third hit in two decades; second in a year
May 2010
- Perigee Zero: Carolina Bays in the Midwest
- New Study: Impact frequency on Jupiter wrong by order of magnitude
- Journal of Cosmology Part II: Terry Jones
- Journal of Cosmology (Part I): Napier
- Blinded By Debate: Steve McIntyre's Climate Audit and AGW Skeptics direct fire on friendly Baillie
- Deep-time Impact Induced Volcanism: A Colloquy
April 2010
- Guest Blog: Rodney Chilton author of 'Sudden Cold: An Examination of the Younger Dryas Cold Reversal'
- Adults in Charge?: NASA #2 Lori Garver published Neo-Catastrophist!
- Smoke Linked to Gun: Napier upheld by Nesvorný and Jenniskens on Zodiacal Cloud and short-period Comets
- Creepy notes: E.P. Grondine fingers Obama Asteroid Mission as reaction to comet Schwassmann Wachmann's next pass
- Wisconsin fireball causes....fires?
- Obama whipsaws nation from Moon to Asteroid: Is he WISEing up?
- Oldie but Goodie: The 2350 BC Middle East Anomaly Evidenced By Micro-debris Fallout, Surface Combustion And Soil Explosion
- Dutch spurns geology and challenges Firestone on his home turf -- Isotopic Chemistry
- Heinrich and Dutch to Firestone: Hang it up on Great Lakes crater speculation
- Tusk bullish on old Taurid Comet papers
- Crater Hunter blog turns it up a notch
- Curious George
- Whipple Watch
- Napier invokes Whipple: Challenges NASA's Morrison
- Napier telegraphs from Old Country: Eats lunch of NASA's Morrison, USA
- Citizen Catastrophist Burchard apologizes to NASA official Morrison
- Morrison of NASA disputes Younger Dryas Impact Team -- touts Tusk despite obscurity
- Shrill and Hysterical: NASA official seeks personal apology from citizen Catastrophist
- Astronomical model for YDB event gets big press....in Britain, Canada and France!
- "COMET THAT KILLED MAMMOTHS COULD STRIKE AGAIN" -- Discovery News on Napier paper
- Royal Astronomical Society touts new Napier paper
March 2010
- Days since NASA has reported WISE finding a comet or asteroid NEO: 19
- Science News: Signs of giant comet impacts found in cores
- NASA continues opaque and clumsy treatment of dark comets and dark asteroids found by WISE
- Bang: Two new papers out concerning proposed Younger Dryas Event
- Man observes disintegrating comet...from his desk at work
- Rare Bill Napier Essay: Giant Comets -- Messengers of Life and Death
- Tusk prompts Grondine to query Napier on Dark, Dead comets and the effort to find them
- NASA: Comet launching companion star to sun "Not crazy"
- Abstract: Holocene Impact Working Group summary of research
- NatGeo TV Rerun: Holocene Working Group and the Thunder Down Under - March 25, 10:00 pm
- Guest Blog: E.P. Grodine's compilation of The First Peoples' accounts of the YD Impacts
- Antarctic Tunguska Blasts: Link trove from Heinrich
- New WISE space telescope finds nine dark comets -- and one black comet -- in six weeks
- The February 11 JPL Press Release on dark, dead comets and the WISE mission
- Dead Car Special!: E.P. Grondine offering great book at great price
- New Scientist: WISE mission finding yet more dark, dead comets predicted by Napier
- Predictive paper: Nesvorny, Bottke, Vokrouhlicky used astronomy to predict Antarctic stratigraphy
- Sterling Webb puts the pieces together: Antarctic airbursts independently predicted
- The paper: Antarctic Blast evidence
- Bang: Ancient Antarctic Blast detected by University of Siena scientists
- Viva la Verde! Just in pic of radioactive Mexican green clay
- 24 Years: KT Boundary Impact Caused Dinosaur Extinction
- Thar She Blows! Napier paper goes public
- Great Paper: The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene
- False Alarm: Cornell site still protecting Napier paper
- Public Access: Napier's Royal Astronomical Society paper now available on web
- My apologies for the repeat emails to subscribers
February 2010
- Geology Conference: Radioactive "Green Layer" at Ice Age site in Mexico
- Royal Astronomical Society: Napier provides astronomical model for YDB Impact Event
- Terror From The Sky
- Google Earth video of Carolina Bays
- NOVA re-running YD Event episode tonight
- NASA mentions dark and dead comets for the first time: WISE looking for them
- Guest Blog: A Catastrophist Manifesto from Han Kloosterman
- Three of Four Clovis Sites radioactive according to Haynes et. al.
- Just in from Vance Haynes at Murray Springs Clovis Site
- Just Published: Independents locate ET Black Mat and more in Venezuela
- AGU Fall Meeting Re-Cap Part Two: Tom Stafford's Texas Hill Country Paleo site littered with ET evidence at start of Younger Dryas
- Guest Blog: Hermann Burchard on Siberian Hot Spot Tracks
- Firestone's response to Paquay and Surovell papers blogged -- Stafford, Sharma and Courty left out of discussion
- Material found in bogs suggests cosmic relation to historic climate downturns
- Bang: NatGeo covers new evidence from the Holocene Working Group
- A Carolina Bay or two....in Kansas
- German researchers have found those same pesky nanodiamond encrusted Carbon Spherules
January 2010
- Allen West on the Black Mat at Pecos Conference, August, 2008
- Is there really a Cosmic Tusk?
- Vance Haynes wonderful PNAS article on the ubiquity of the black mat at Clovis sites
- Carolina bays....in the Midwest?
- The PNAS article that kicked-off the most recent phase of the debate
- Original YD team poster from 2007 Acapulco AGU
- Sampling protocol for (some) markers of the YD event
- Clovis population decline at Younger Dryas?
- New Paper: Sea Level jump at onset of Younger Dryas?
- Duncan Steele on the Brazilian meteoritic explosions of the 1930's
- Firestone and Topping 2001
- Scoop: Grad student beats major journal to the punch
- Video: Clovis Comet theory
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