Dedunks

Some scientific controversies require satellites, laboratories, expeditions, and million-dollar equipment. Others require a camera, a GPS unit, a range pole and free weekend. The Arlington Canyon exposure on Santa Rosa Island belongs in the second category. For years, this remote canyon in Channel Islands National Park has occupied a peculiar place in the Younger Dryas impact debate.

Tusk buddy and fellow Comet Research Group member Marc Young did a great service to science by revealing the flaws of 2020 Sun et al. paper, Volcanic origin for Younger Dryas geochemical anomalies ca. 12,900 cal B.P. Sun et al. purported to refute the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis by publishing geochemical signals of volcanic eruptions they claimed caused the mysterious climate downturn. Like…