Most dating systems can be converted to Gregorian, and it is predominant. Personally, I use the Unix Epoch for some stuff, but to throw BP as measured from 1950 in there is just an added layer of confusion.
Pet peeve. Sorry. I did like the article.
/johnny
Well,...what you say makes sense,
This is all very fascinating to me.....more from the comments:
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About the sudden warming at the onset of the Bolling ~14500 years Cal BP, there are even more problems here, since the major glacial retreat started a few thousend years earlier. The problem was recognised by Denton et al 2006 and they dubbed it the mystery interval.
(Denton G.H., Broecker, W.S. and Alley, R.B., 2006: The mystery interval 17.5 to 14.5 kyrs ago, PAGES news, 2: 14-16.)
So if there are more not understood problems here, is it possible that one or more of our fundamental suppositions is fundamentally wrong?
Also that quote: ” Evidence of Younger Dryas advance of continental ice sheets is reported from the Scandinavian ice sheet, the Laurentide ice sheet in eastern North America, the Cordilleran ice sheet in western North America, and the Siberian ice sheet in Russia.
There was no Siberian ice sheet during the last glacial maximum, see for instance Hubberten et al 2004 http://epic.awi.de/9052/1/Hub2004a.pdf fig 1 on page 3. That was the maximum extent of the Eurasian ice sheet, way before the Younger Dryas. Let alone that there were glacial advances.
Really the interpretation of the last glacial transition and many others are troubled by interpretation issues of certain proxies. However my explaining post in an earlier thread was moderated away.