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"The new research, however, detected carbon spherules in soil layers from before, during, and after the Younger Dryas, making it hard to argue that the particles are products of a sudden impact."

There is a reason hardly anybody reads National Geographic anymore. They have developed a skill for taking an interesting subject and making it dry as hell.

Tiny balls of fungus and feces may disprove the theory that a huge space rock exploded over North America about 12,900 years ago, triggering a thousand-year cold snap, according to a new study.

The quest for the ancient 'shrooms.

4 posted on 06/24/2010 8:50:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)

Seems the weight of evidence is tilted toward a series of catastrophic extraterrestrial and terrestrial events, including a layer of iridium mixed with ash, et cetera that are concurrent to the Younger Dryas. Science is a long process of work not a short article in National “there is global warming because we wrote a few articles that say so—trust us you are idiots” Geographic.

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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8 posted on 06/24/2010 2:30:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)

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Thanks Palter for the ping, and for the shrug. ;')




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10 posted on 06/24/2010 2:32:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)

That’s right. The causes of the recent extinctions were substantially more major than a comet impact.