2011

June 14, 2011

Face-off: PBS moderates on-line debate between proponents and detractors of Younger Dryas cosmic impact

From PBS’ NOVA site on the Clovis Comet: “THE ICE AGE EXTINCTION DEBATE (UPDATE) by Evan Hadingham, NOVA Senior Science Editor In Megabeasts’ Sudden Death, NOVA reported on a radical new theory that an extraterrestrial impact devastated North America and other regions at the end of the Ice Age. First aired at a conference in May 2007 by a team led by geological…

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June 3, 2011

Allen West smeared by Dalton, former Nature writer

UPDATE: I failed to add Allen West’s expunged “conviction” to the links below. Here is the order expunging the silly matter from the record. To put this kind of stuff in perspective, I was once fined a similar amount (around $4000) by the North Carolina Attorney General’s office for sediment pollution. Horrors — I am in the pollution control business! Truth…

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May 15, 2011

Blast from past: YD team member diciplined by Golden State geo board in 2002

I have nothing but an iPhone until later tomorrow. So this post is necessarily brief. Allen West has taken a hit to his credibility (and to some extent the Tusk’s) from charges by Younger Dryas Hypothesis critics ranging from professional misconduct to falsifying lab results. As an advocate of Allen’s and someone who has spent years watching him personally sacrifice with no financial…

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May 4, 2011

Full Paper: Paleo-indian decline at Younger Dryas

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May 3, 2011

Wipe-out: New paper details continental human population decline during Younger Dryas in North America

I don’t have the full paper yet but here is the abstract. Somewhere on the Tusk or Scribd I have the conference poster which was a precursor to this paper. [Found it!] Note that David Anderson is the keeper of the Paleo-Indian Database When does this stuff move from kooky — to compelling?? Multiple Lines of Evidence for a Possible Human Population Decline during the Early Younger…

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April 28, 2011

Black Mat: Third paper details Venezuelan occurrence

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April 12, 2011

Surfs Up: Cosmic Tsunami strikes Big Apple, leaves diamond calling card

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April 12, 2011

Once Again: Another large modern crater found in North America

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April 8, 2011

Tusk Exclusive: Kloosterman hits brick wall, "Secret Science" brings shame to Dutch

Mystery photo of Black Mat in Holland Han Kloosterman, a wonderful gentleman catastrophist in the Netherlands, has shared an all too typical story with the Tusk revealing the enormous challenge of investigating the Younger Dryas Boundary hypothesis. Han has long advertised the special nature of the “Usselo Boundary,” a Younger Dryas strata found in the shallow soils of the Netherlands.

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March 27, 2011

Cosmic Blowdown?: Ancient Buried Cypress Forest in South Carolina

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Face-off: PBS moderates on-line debate between proponents and detractors of Younger Dryas cosmic impact

Allen West smeared by Dalton, former Nature writer

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

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

Cosmic Blowdown?: Ancient Buried Cypress Forest in South Carolina

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