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June 26, 2012

Another informative blog!?!

I came across a well-researched and informative blog today summing up the recent findings and YDB science to date. I was so impressed by Abby Tabor’s post at Science Works Now, “New Evidence for Climate-Changing Cosmic Impact,” I have added a permanent link to her on the side-bar. Tabor it seems was driven — shudder — to actually contact the authors on each side of…

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October 1, 2010

Tusk Exclusive: Vance Holliday informal critique of the Younger Dryas Boundary theory

Vance Holliday and others in this email exchange have kindly allowed me to post their chatter to the Tusk. I will clean it up later. But for now – here you go….. On 9/24/2010 2:38 PM, Vance Holliday wrote: Richard: All I asked was why is it that when us skeptics can’t reproduce data or confirm hypothesis for The Impact Team we are accused of slipshod science or incompetence, yet…

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April 13, 2010

Dutch spurns geology and challenges Firestone on his home turf -- Isotopic Chemistry

Steve Dutch, a geologist and avocational skeptic, has gone from criticism of the Great Lakes as impacts craters (not a central claim of the YDB team, in any case) to taking on Rick Firestone and others in Isotopic Chemistry. The interdisciplinary nature of this debate is fun and healthy, but if were Dutch, I would stick with midwestern geology, and leave the isotopic chemistry to Firestone &#8212…

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January 30, 2010

Carolina bays....in the Midwest?

Here’s an excellent mash-up of bay LiDAR images Rick Firestone used in a recent article he wrote for the Journal of Cosmology, The Case for the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event: Mammoth, Megafauna and the Clovis Extinction, 12,000 Years Ago. Why is it excellent? Because perhaps it will inspire people to take this phenomena a little more seriously. For instance, those who…

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January 30, 2010

The PNAS article that kicked-off the most recent phase of the debate

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January 30, 2010

Original YD team poster from 2007 Acapulco AGU

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January 19, 2010

Firestone and Topping 2001

The excitement when this scientific paper was published in 2001 was old news to me, really. I had first heard from William Topping way back in 1998. He was interested in Carolina Bays. Terribly interested. So was another scientist he said, Dr. Richard Firestone. I hit the search on Alta Vista and lo and behold, Firestone is indeed a San Francisco nuclear scientist — for the government. That…

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Another informative blog!?!

Tusk Exclusive: Vance Holliday informal critique of the Younger Dryas Boundary theory

Dutch spurns geology and challenges Firestone on his home turf -- Isotopic Chemistry

Carolina bays....in the Midwest?

The PNAS article that kicked-off the most recent phase of the debate

Original YD team poster from 2007 Acapulco AGU

Firestone and Topping 2001

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