I have been interested for some time whether the WISE mission now underway is able to confirm or refute, in part, the widely dismissed theories of Bill Napier and the British NEO catastrophists. In particular, that the solar system is host to dangerous dark bodies as well as the better known and more easily spotted bright comets and reflective asteroids. [See: Extreme albedo comets and the…
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Photo Jessica Kloosterman, Paris, 2009
Han B. Kloosterman — Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A CATASTROPHIST MANIFESTO
Originally Distributed at the Joint Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, May, 2007
Gottfriend Wilhelm Leibniz
Leibniz’ Slogan
Uniformitarianism, the gradualist doctrine in geology, finds its origin in the slogan Natura Non Facit Saltus, launched…
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I’m reading the recent Vance Haynes paper and there is much on which to comment. But this caught my eye and I just had to share.
Haynes et. al. took the surprising step of analyzing the sediment profile above and below the layer where the last of the first Clovis indians are found — for radiation. At three of the four sites there was a distinct and inexplicable peak in radiation…
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C. Vance Haynes Jr.a,1,
J. Boernerb,
K. Domanikc,
D. Laurettac,
J. Ballengerd, and
J. Gorevac
+Author Affiliations
aSchool of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences,University of Arizona, PO Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721
bDepartment of Geosciences, University of Arizona, PO Box 210077, Tucson, AZ 85721
cLunar and Planetary Laboratory, Department of Planetary Sciences, University of…
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An international team of scientists representing a number of disciplines locate bizarre materials and ET impact markers in a distinct layer of well-dated sediments from the initiation of the Younger Dryas and publish their findings in a major scientific journal. 2007 Firestone et.al. in PNAS?
Nope. W.C. Mahaney et. al. Geomorphology — March 2010.
In a total surprise to me (and I think…
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Tom Stafford was an expert among experts at the Fall Meeting. I became aware of Tom Stafford when Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of America was published in Science in 2007. He is the Former Director of the Laboratory of AMS Radicarbon Research at University of Colorado. And for more than decade he has been President of Stafford Research Laboratories — the…
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From Hermann Burchard:
This note is a summary of aspects of Siberian geology as far as I have been able to gather relevant facts, occasioned in part by and meant to correct errors in what I heard on a TV program dealing with the Siberian traps [“Earth’s Deadliest Eruption,” Feb 9, History Channel, AETN, affiliated with British Sky Broadcasting, often runs programs from…
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Little Bird Update:
A little bird called me to make a couple of points related to my blog last night regarding the (limited) Firestone quotes provided at Anthro.net.
1) Rick apparently used “we” inappropriately when claiming Surovell was biased. Other YD team members do not think Surovell was biased — and surely not malignly biased to the extent he would deliberately…
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Wow. I tossed up an oldish link to an abstract by Lars Franzen — and today Lars sends me a nice note with a more recent article attached. Until I hear otherwise I am sharing it.
Absolutely facinating. Lars’ paper shows a link between abrubt climate change and cosmic material. He doesn’t speculate too heavily on the precise nature of the cosmic flux — could be little…
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