Pro Younger Dryas Impact Papers

Ancient Calendar, Recently Discovered, May Document a Long-Ago Disaster, NYT, August 12, 2024 This is an incredibly important article considering the sweep of media coverage in the 18 years since the Comet Research Group and the Tusk first published the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The YDI is positioned in the article as reasonable…

Comet Research Group member and PhD Candidate Marc Young, of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, has made a mammoth 50,000+ word contribution to the YDIH literature. The article analyses the history of the YDIH, including arguments for and against it, how the hypothesis has evolved over time, and the current state of the debate. It offers the deepest analysis of several key issues yet…

Nature link The different age components are used to evaluate the age of each sample. Other information, such as stratigraphy and artifacts, are used to select components most likely to represent the depositional age. We also have well-dated YDB microspherule and platinum peaks at more than 40 sites across 5 continents that, when present, provide useful chronostratigraphic anchors for selecting…

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Tusk buddy Antonio Zamora tipped me off to the paper below revealing that a global loss of genetic males coincides exactly with the comet impact at ~12,882. Tony does an indispensable job surfacing literature highly relevant to the Younger Dryas Impact. I had missed the stunning 2015 gene paper. Following the depth of the greatest climate crisis in human…