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12,900 Years Ago: North American Comet Impact Theory Disproved
ScienceDaily ^
| Jan. 27, 2009
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Posted on 01/27/2009 3:06:57 AM PST by decimon
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:06:57 AM PST
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv; steelyourfaith; xcamel
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:07:45 AM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
When they mention ‘global warming’, I quit reading.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:11:02 AM PST
by
blam
To: decimon
So by studying fire patterns SINCE the supposed event, he has been able to prove that the event never occurred?
What am I missing here?
Maybe fire patterns increased because IT TOOK A WHILE FOR IT TO ALL GROW BACK?
I hate these guys who say something is set in stone, a better title would be something like “Evidence found against ancient comet theory”, but I guess if he goes to parties, he gets more babes if he says “I disproved something...”
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:14:42 AM PST
by
djf
To: blam
When I read that a single ‘scientist’ from Bristol, I got suspicious. It seems like it would be a herculean task to compare the data from samples over the entire continent.
Like you, when I reached the “global warming” part, I realized I was not reading about a scientist but a religious zealot who claims he knows the date of the coming, man-caused apocalypse.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:15:19 AM PST
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(The people who cheered when OJ was acquitted are the same ones cheering now.)
To: decimon
The next-to-last paragraph in the story seems to contradict the initial claims:
They found clear changes in biomass burning and fire frequency whenever climate changed abruptly, and most particularly when temperatures increased at the end of the Younger Dryas cold phase.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:27:38 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: DuncanWaring
The next-to-last paragraph in the story seems to contradict the initial claims:I report, you decide.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:39:06 AM PST
by
decimon
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To: decimon; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; Fiddlstix; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; ...
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:45:39 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Hope. Change. Impeach.)
To: steelyourfaith
What am I missing here?Everything. You must report to The Consensorate for your annual conscienceness raising.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:53:01 AM PST
by
decimon
To: djf
a better title would be something like Evidence found against ancient comet theory, Unless I missed it, they haven't 'disproved' the theory that a comet struck the U.S. at about 12,000 years ago, but only that it didn't (so they say) lead to continent sized wild fires.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:53:36 AM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: ETL
Unless I missed it, they haven't 'disproved' the theory that a comet struck the U.S. at about 12,000 years ago, but only that it didn't (so they say) lead to continent sized wild fires. Yeah, there is all that Lucy in the sky, hard carbon stuff to explain.
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posted on
01/27/2009 3:55:49 AM PST
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decimon
To: decimon
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posted on
01/27/2009 4:11:37 AM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: decimon
This will last until someone discovers it's wrong.
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posted on
01/27/2009 4:23:28 AM PST
by
HawaiianGecko
(Online internet polls are foolish: Winston Churchill, 1939)
To: decimon
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posted on
01/27/2009 4:26:20 AM PST
by
wolfcreek
(There is no 2 party system only arrogant Pols and their handlers)
To: decimon
“Their results provide no evidence for continental-scale fires, but support the fact that the increase in large-scale wildfires in all regions of the world during the past decade is related to an increase in global warming.”
These psychos find evidence of global warming when the go out in the morning to pick up the paper.
To: decimon
fire regimes in North America changed between 15 and 10,000 years ago, a time of large and rapid climate changes.. SUV's of the Aztecs?
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posted on
01/27/2009 4:30:38 AM PST
by
6SJ7
(Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
To: decimon
I don't believe this scientist. With good reason: it was this "break" around 12,000 years ago that wiped out the larger mammals in North America (woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, and several species of large bears) and wiped out much of human existence in what is now the North American continent. And it all happened in a VERY short period of time.
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posted on
01/27/2009 4:46:48 AM PST
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: decimon
You must report to The Consensorate for your annual conscienceness raising.Don't consense-us bro!
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posted on
01/27/2009 4:49:29 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: decimon
This stuff makes me chuckle! There is NO WAY they can know what happened 12,900 years ago. -continent wide wildfires.. come on now... Unless you were THERE, there is NO WAY to positively know this! It’s SPECULATION not science.
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posted on
01/27/2009 5:58:41 AM PST
by
J40000
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