The Cosmic Tusk

July 30, 2011

3,732,468 viewers can’t be wrong

I came across the video below this morning on a 2012 site. As regular readers may guess, I don’t get too worked up about next year. But as the 2012 worry-warts research their subject, more and more are coming across the YDB group’s field research and incorporating it into their presentations and arguments regarding the pending Apocalypse. This is good news – bad news. The good…

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Panspermia

July 29, 2011

Wickramasinghe: Death from Above

Check out this great summary paper from the irrepressible Chandra Wickramasinghe. Wickramasinghe just keeps going and going and going — even without his side-kick Sir Fred Hoyle. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe’s decades-old contention that life evolved in space and spreads via comets is convincing to me. Not only do they have substantial data indicating this to be the case, it just…

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Random Tusks

July 6, 2011

[Update] Swiss Kiss: Nanodiamonds and Iridium independently confirmed at Bern INQUA session on Younger Dryas climate crash

The titles for the talks and posters at the upcoming INQUA session, The Enigmatic Younger Dryas, have been posted for some time. Typical of scientific conferences, the narrative abstract revealing the findings (or musings) of the presenter is posted later, a few weeks before the conference. The abstracts for the conference have now been published. Here again in Switzerland, in keeping with…

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Random Tusks

June 28, 2011

Skeptic Speaks: A Personal Essay from Vance Holliday on the Clovis Comet

Vance Holliday Vance Holliday was thoughtful to give the Tusk a heads up on his essay first published here at the Argonaut. I have not read it throughly enough to respond myself right now, but I am certain of this: One or more of the dozen key researchers from the other side of the debate should write something similar. His tender tale of woe and misunderstanding is exceeded only by their…

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Random Tusks

June 15, 2011

Upcoming Bern INQUA Conference packed with Younger Dryas Boundary studies

Abstracts for Session 60 “The enigmatic Younger Dryas climatic episode” Oral Presentations ID Title Presenter Talknbr. Invited 1666 Younger Dryas Onset Marked by Dramatic Environmental and Biotic Change James Kennett 1 x 835 The Younger-Dryas Cold reversal:Ice-Earth-Oceab Intercations During a Period of Rapid Climate Change Richard Peltier 2 x 366 Assessing the effectiveness…

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Random Tusks

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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Random Tusks

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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Random Tusks

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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Random Tusks

May 4, 2011

Full Paper: Paleo-indian decline at Younger Dryas

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Random Tusks

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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3,732,468 viewers can’t be wrong

Wickramasinghe: Death from Above

[Update] Swiss Kiss: Nanodiamonds and Iridium independently confirmed at Bern INQUA session on Younger Dryas climate crash

Skeptic Speaks: A Personal Essay from Vance Holliday on the Clovis Comet

Upcoming Bern INQUA Conference packed with Younger Dryas Boundary studies

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

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