fbpx

Subscribe

Latest Posts

The archives

Random Tusks

Chilton Raved at Watts Up

Rod Chilton of BCC Climate  has a guest post on the Younger Dryas over at Watts Up With That that is lighting up the boards, and bringing some welcome new attention to our subject. It also seems that blog force Anthony Watts has taken an interest in the Younger Dryas Boundary Event, having posted three times now on the subject. Wonderful. We are in an uphill fight with dogma it seems &#8212…
Read more
528
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Finally Available in PNAS: Very High Temperature Impact Melt Products: Evidence for Cosmic Impacts Airbursts 12,900 years ago

These scientists have identified three contemporaneous levels more than 12,000 years ago, on two continents yielding siliceous scoria-like objects (SLO’s),” said H. Richard Lane, program director of National Science Foundation’s Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research. “SLO’s are indicative of high-energy cosmic airbursts/impacts, bolstering the contention that these events…
Read more
944
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Kerr on Limb: Science writer misleads peeps in public post

Distinguished Science writer Dr. Richard Kerr walked the plank this afternoon in response to this morning’s Knight Science Journalism Tracker inquiry of science writers. Charles Petit’s casual post brought quick attention from the old-school dean of science writing. Kerr implored his press colleagues to, in effect: Move on, move on…There is nothing to see here. See here: I…
Read more
633
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Calling All Crickets: Knight Science Journalism Tracker Shouts-Out the YDB Hypothesis

Crickets…. Watts Up? Big Media again tend to ignore PNAS report that comet blast – or blasts – renewed Ice Age, canceled Clovis culture, mammoths, giant beavers… — KSJT The authors worked mainly under grants from the NSF. It doesn’t give money to just anybody. — KSJT From the Knight Science Journalism Tracker A quite perfectly delightful hypothesis holds that air bursts…
Read more
463
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

PNAS: Very High Temperature Impact Melt Products: Evidence for Cosmic Airbursts/Impacts at Younger Dryas

Well, well. A cat just leapt from the bag. I don’t have an “as published” copy yet (despite being a co-author). But I will post one just as soon as I do. See here for UCSB Press Release:  Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact  These scientists have identified three contemporaneous levels more than 12,000 years…
Read more
465
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Dutch Diamonds Demand Extraordinary Explanations

The Aalsterhut / Hut van Mie Pils The recent paper from van Hoesel et al., Nanodiamonds and wildfire evidence in the Usselo Horizon postdate the Allerød-Younger Dryas Boundary, confirming nanodiamonds in the Dutch Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB), or Usselo Horizon, establishes a cynical new low for the intellectual integrity of our debate. Despite confirmation of this extraordinary material in the…
Read more
767
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Random Tusks

Bronze Age Catastrophe Layer Discovered In Irish Shell Midden

Den Aengus Fort on the Tsunami Wracked Aran Islands offshore of Fanore Beach  Irish Examiner 6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery By Andrew Hamilton Wednesday, May 09, 2012 Archeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago — one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland. Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden…
Read more
570
Share

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question