Posted on 04/02/2010 4:06:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists
An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say.
Published: 8:00AM BST 02 Apr 2010
An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say.
A comet may well have caused the earth to freeze for over 1,000 years Photo: GETTY
The catastrophe, caused by a disintegrating comet, wiped out large numbers of animal species and disrupted human cultures.
A new theory put forward by according to Professor Bill Napier, from the Cardiff University Astrobiology Centre suggests it occurred when the Earth strayed into a dense trail of fragments shed by a large comet.
Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each one releasing the energy of a one megaton nuclear bomb.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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About 11,000 BC there was a huge rainstorm that killed many many species and thoroughly disrupted human society? Hmmm... I’ve definitely read that very explanation in a book somewhere... now what was that book called?... Hmmm....
This one is a hail of comets. Each crashing onto earth at such a high speed that you don’t see much water, but lots of heat. It is no different than a giant rock hitting earth.
I have some comet credits that I’m willing to sell
Well, many giant blocks of ice streaking down to earth at unimaginable speed resulted in something quite different from what you see in typical hailstorm. The release of heat from such collusion is so vast that it will instantly vaporize comet and set everything in its neighborhooed on fire.
Of course. Gobal warming causes global cooling. We already knew that.
Unlike enviros global warming, this is the work of single catastrophic event.
An accurate weather report!!!
LLS
Wow, how did the Bush family know to launch a comet?
The Vast Leftwing Collusion ... it's all hot air, lol.
Seriously, though, I was participating in a thread discussing ancient plagues here on FR, just a day or two ago, and it's looking more and more likely that the "Black Beath" had an extraterrestrial origin, rather than being bubonic plague. Reports of comets and fire raining down, massive earthquakes and odd storms match up well with the beginning of both the Justinian Plague and the Black Death in China and Europe.
It appears to me, that science is slowly coming around to a more Biblically compatible view, unintentionally of course. A large icy comet, or fragments from one, could accound for a sudden and widespread, massive flood, legends of which exist in every culture, in every corner of the world.
Spellcheck is my friend, spellcheck is my friend, spellcheck is my friend.
Beath = Death, accound = account.
Actually, the referenced article is the result of two factors:
1) First, a scientist is trying to get some media attention directed toward his research.
2) Second, there is too much research money running about that funds scientists to look into these matters.
It's not that big a deal that he's trying to get his 15 minutes of fame. But no doubt the real eco-whores will try and us it somehow to promote their version of "climate change."
Indeed.
LLS
Interesting theory here.
Professor BILL NAPIER is an astronomer at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland and an honorary professor at the Institute for Astrobiology of Cardiff University. He is interested in the relationship between life and the Universe and is a leading authority on the celestial hazard issue. He has co-authored three scientific books and about eighty research papers.
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