Posted on 05/01/2024 7:59:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
We’re all gonna die! Ping!...................
HAARP, OTOH... 🤗
(See, it's always what these folks *don't* tell you..)
We’re all gonna die! Ping!
Every 11 years , LOL
Oh yeah? Many others do not agree with that blithe dismissal.
Evidence for a Solar Flare Cause of the Pleistocene Mass Extinction
Published online by Cambridge University Press
18 July 2016
The hypothesis is presented that an abrupt rise in atmospheric radiocarbon concentration evident in the Cariaco Basin varve record at 12,837 ± 10 cal yr BP, contemporaneous with the Rancholabrean termination, may have been produced by a super-sized solar proton event (SPE) having a fluence of ~1.3 × 1011 protons/cm2. A SPE of this magnitude would have been large enough to deliver a lethal radiation dose of at least 3–6 Sv to the Earth's surface, and hence could have been a principal cause of the final termination of the Pleistocene megafauna and several genera of smaller mammals and birds. The event time-correlates with a large-magnitude acidity spike found at 1708.65 m in the GISP2 Greenland ice record, which is associated with high NO-3 ion concentrations and a rapid rise in 10Be deposition rate, all of which are indicators of a sudden cosmicray influx. The depletion of nitrate ions within this acidic ice layer suggests that the snowpack surface at that time was exposed to intense UV for a prolonged period, which is consistent with a temporary destruction of the polar ozone layer by solar cosmic rays. The acidity event also coincides with a large-magnitude, abrupt climatic excursion and is associated with elevated ammonium ion concentrations, an indicator of global fires.
Of the 97 geoarchaeological sites of this study that bridge the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (last deglaciation), approximately two thirds have a black organic-rich layer or “black mat” in the form of mollic paleosols, aquolls, diatomites, or algal mats with radiocarbon ages suggesting they are stratigraphic manifestations of the Younger Dryas cooling episode 10,900 B.P. to 9,800 B.P. (radiocarbon years). This layer or mat covers the Clovis-age landscape or surface on which the last remnants of the terminal Pleistocene megafauna are recorded. Stratigraphically and chronologically the extinction appears to have been catastrophic, seemingly too sudden and extensive for either human predation or climate change to have been the primary cause. This sudden Rancholabrean termination at 10,900 ± 50 B.P. appears to have coincided with the sudden climatic switch from Allerød warming to Younger Dryas cooling. Recent evidence for extraterrestrial impact, although not yet compelling, needs further testing because a remarkable major perturbation occurred at 10,900 B.P. that needs to be explained.
X-class solar flare? My first thought was “What’s Elon up to now?”
But, could it fry our communication systems?
But it is our carbon footprint that controls the climate....
This layer or mat covers the Clovis-age landscape or surface on which the last remnants of the terminal Pleistocene megafauna are recorded.
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The black mat represents 4% of Earth’s vegetation at the time; most of the burning was caused by mega-fires burning out of control & creating firestorms. This period lasted most of 100 years.
So he says,
Even if something has a .0000001% chance of happening, if done often enough, it’ll happen.
Eventually the sun will cook, and then eat us, assuming it doesn’t have some sort of weird flare that we never thought possible which wipes us out, or some anomoly where its output suddenly drops and we all freeze to death while worrying about global warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
Of course we may be wiped out before then by a big rock from space that hits us, depending on what random collisions occure in the Astriod belt and what is hurled our way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
Meantime, narasistic and self important man will pretend that his plastic shopping bag or use of a car will end the planet.
Of course we’re all gonna die again.
It’s staggering to think that natural winters and rainy season rainfalls wouldn’t have put the fires out.
In approximately 4 billion years, give or take a millennia or two, our Sun will swell up to the size of Mars orbit, becoming a Red Giant. Everything inside that diameter will become a memory..........................
Truer words were never spoken.
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