This week Rick Firestone shared a little known 2009 paper with the Tusk and some others. I was unaware of it and enjoyed reading it. The authors find a unique spike in fire at Akgol, Turkey ~13,000 years ago which they attribute to a horrendous inferno in a marsh, of all places. They cite Firestone (2007).
ABSTRACT: This study investigates changes in climate, vegetation, wildfire and human…
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Did the Black-Mat Impact/Airburst Reach the Antarctic? Evidence from New Mountain Near the Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valley Mountains
Journal of Geology, March 15, 2018
Detailed microscopic investigations of horizons in a surface paleosol, part of a pedostratigraphic stack of tills at New Mountain, Antarctica, dated to the middle Miocene climatic optimum event (ca. 15 Ma), suggest not only that…
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Hear the British Library interview Dr. Baillie
Jonny McAneney’s Tusk comment on his collaborator Mike Baillie’s paper:
This is an important paper, but it is equally important to point out that scientific understanding has moved on in the decade or so since this was published. I have posted before on this site about the corrections of some of the contents of this paper, but given that…
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Papers #1 and #2 and Supplementary Materials
Quick take at skeptic site NeuroLogica
Tallboy – Widespread Panic (1997)
The Tusk inaugurates our new look here by posting the most important paper in the peer-reviewed canon of the Comet Research Group since the original PNAS publication in 2007. It is truly a new day at the Tusk.
The Two Part work published above and below in the Journal of…
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Bill Napier sent the Tusk a note regarding Joe Rogan’s unforgettable debate-style podcast on the Younger Dryas Boundary Hypothesis. Bill’s message is posted below my rant here. His informed correction of Marc Defant’s self-styled skeptical authority on comets is priceless and instructive.
A cultural genre of all-purpose professional “skeptics,” like Defant and…
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