Posted on 01/02/2009 9:02:31 AM PST by Pharmboy
Global cooling ping...
Diamonds...They don’t call them “ice” for nothin’.
Another bit of “inconvenient” evidence to suggest Gore’s theories on global warming are a pile o crap.
Small crystals equal rapid cooling, large crystals equal slow cooling.
Sience class wasn’t a total waste.
Isn’t this an incorrect usage of the term eon? I thought an eon was composed of more than one geological age...
Well, it is the NYT, so I guess I should not expect much.
It's well known that a meteorite colliding with Earth is considered the most likely reason dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago. Now a team of scientists says it has found new evidence that a comet triggered a similar extinction much more recently: just 13,000 years ago, when humans were around to witness the event and suffer its terrible consequences.The researchers think the comet exploded above the planet's surface, ultimately killing off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and other large mammals that roamed North America.
The scientists, led by University of Oregon anthropologist Douglas Kennett, say their report offers up a "smoking bullet" proof that a comet set off the sudden, thousand-year freeze and wiped out the big animals of the era.
Diamonds are forever...
How can "less dense" fresh water block the sinking of cold, salty water? Higher density fluids sink relative to other fluids. Is this New York Slimes science, or am I missing something?
Actually, the microscopic diamonds are a result of a meteor impact, not due to cooling. Impact-type microdiamonds can be used as one indicator of impact craters.
That sentence stopped me also. Perhaps the high-riding, less dense fresh water disrupted the salt water cycling...
Thought that heat and pressure made diamonds ... a diamond is nothing but a lump of coal that stuck with it
The theory goes that all of the fresh water diluted the denser “salt” water turning the Atlantic into more or less of a giant still lake.
Eh, as good a theory as any I guess.
That may be. However, as we are talking about an article in the NY Slimes, there's no guarantee of common sense or accuracy.
Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event
Chicago Tribune | January 2, 2009 | Robert Mitchum
Posted on 01/01/2009 2:09:17 PM PST by neverdem
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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(In the meantime, I've been using Google Maps to look at lots of "Carolina Bays" in the Myrtle Beach, SC area...)
Thanks...great stuff.
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