Theory suggests comet didn't trigger ice age

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[Paul Pierett]

The theory that a giant comet crashed into earth around 13,000 years ago, causing the planet to freeze over and animals to die off is now being called into question as another theory is being put forth to explain the cause of the ice age.

[Paul Pierett]

Always too quick to publish. Then we get stuck with it for a long time. Now a new idea. How long will it last? They need to slow down and put it together with the rest of the evidence. Same goes for all this global warming stuff.

[cranked]

A theory to replace a theory....anyone else seeing the irony here? =.=

[huldah1776]

“However, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, MO and the Royal Hollway University of London now say that the crystals have been misidentified and that they are actually common clumps of another form of carbon.”

Let me guess, from man discovering how to build a fire?

[Cicero]

It was caused by a Chimpanzee named Albert Gore, who persuaded his fellow chimpanzees to put out their barbecue fires so as to cut back on their carbon emissions.

[DBrow]

Wasn’t there an Ice Age irridium anomaly as well?

My own theory is that Clovis Man used too much fire, raising CO2 levels...

[Eagles6]

Hmm...and here I thoght that they had settled on the Milankovitch cycles.

http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/time1/milankov.htm

[cranked]

They are going to try to tie this into something AGW (global warming) related...watch. :P

[JRios1968]

Bush’s Fault!

[dfwgator]

I didn't think this stuff was around back then.

[Raycpa]

Bush’s ancestors?

[Pollster1]

Theories are supposed to be replaced by other theories, even in climatology. That’s the whole point of scientific inquiry - real science is never “settled”.

[Mad Dawgg]

The theory that makes most sense is that Earth goes through really long cycles having to do with its movement around the Sun and the Sun's cycle of activity as well. This cause periods of warmer and colder temperatures cycles thousands of years long.

If you read up on the REAL science you will find that the above theory has lots of data to back it up! Unfortunately it doesn't give any ammo for the "Church of Climate Change" to enforce its Communist/Green agenda so it's not allowed to be given air time on the MSM.

[20yearvet]

The Ice Age was a result of Piltdown man. Just as Globle Warming is a result of to many speaches by Al Gore.

[UCANSEE2]

Why would it have to be a comet, instead of a meteor?

[siunevada]

“12,900-year-old sentiment layers”

Love it. Is that some sort of quaint local Canadian dialect?

[HardStarboard]

High probability that Magnetic Reversals cause ice ages. Read "Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps" - The True Origin of the Species....Robert W. Felix.

His earlier book, "Not By Fire But By Ice" is a great read but out of print. You might get a copy by calling 425-821-7372 [Sugarhouse Publishing].

Felix has synthesized all the available science and drawn some conclusions no one else seems to have the insight to come up with. He first published in 1997 - simply a brilliant thinker! Website is at www.iceagenow.com

[HardStarboard]

High probability that Magnetic Reversals cause ice ages. Read "Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps" - The True Origin of the Species....Robert W. Felix.

His earlier book, "Not By Fire But By Ice" is a great read but out of print. You might get a copy by calling 425-821-7372 [Sugarhouse Publishing].

Felix has synthesized all the available science and drawn some conclusions no one else seems to have the insight to come up with. He first published in 1997 - simply a brilliant thinker! Website is at www.iceagenow.com

[cranked]

“Scientific inquiry” has become a near joke in some respects, IMHO, about as much as ‘peer reviewed’, and that sir, is coming from one who works in the academic field.

[HardStarboard]

sorry for the double

[Pollster1]

“Scientific inquiry” has become a near joke in some respects, IMHO, about as much as ‘peer reviewed’, and that sir, is coming from one who works in the academic field.

True but sad, as I also know from experience.