[decimon]

Old flame ping.

[blam]

When they mention ‘global warming’, I quit reading.

[djf]

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...”

[DuncanWaring]

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.

[steelyourfaith]

"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."

What am I missing here? There is evidence that the globe has been cooling for at least the last decade.

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[HawaiianGecko]

This will last until someone discovers it's wrong.

[wolfcreek]

From the same link:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070924172959.htm

Must say, these scientists cover *all* the bases.

[Brilliant]

“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.

[6SJ7]

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?

[RayChuang88]

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.

[J40000]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

IOW, BS.

Thanks decimon!

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[wildbill]

How did they get from 12,900 years ago to current wildfires and global bull.

[ThanhPhero]

...but support the fact that the increase in large-scale wildfires in a...

...but support the contention that the increase in large-scale wildfires in a...

[Mike Darancette]

Dr Sandy Harrison from the University of Bristol and colleagues tested the theory by examining charcoal and pollen records to assess how fire regimes in North America changed between 15 and 10,000 years ago, a time of large and rapid climate changes. 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.

They detect fires during the last decade caused by global warming in the previous decade. But cannot detect fires caused by the major warming event of the ending of an ice age?

They also do not explain the onset of the Younger Dryas.

[ForGod'sSake]

Apparently this lady didn't get the memo: BLACK MAT EXTINCTION. Or maybe she figgers all the megafauna committed suicide. Or more likely she's working on a grant that expects different conclusions??? No matter; she earned this...

[count-your-change]

” Did A Comet Hit Great Lakes Region, Fragment Human Populations, 12,900 Years Ago? (May 23, 2007) — Scientist are proposing a startling new theory: that an extraterrestrial impact, possibly a comet, set off a 1,000-year-long cold spell and wiped out or fragmented a wide variety of animal genera, ... > read more”.

On the same page. The comet hit, it didn’t, the comet.....?

[bert]

Now we know why he is at the University of Bristol