The Intriguing Problem Of The Younger Dryas—What Does It Mean And What Caused It?

watts Up With That? ^ | June 19, 2012 | Guest post by Don J. Easterbrook

[BroJoeK]

from the article: "Both 14C and 10Be production rates in the upper atmosphere changed during the YD.
14C and 10Be are isotopes produced by collision of incoming radiation with atoms in the upper atmosphere.
The change in their production rates means that the Younger Dryas was associated with changes in the amount of radiation entering the Earth’s atmosphere, leading to the intriguing possibility that the YD was caused by solar fluctuations."

So the sun did it?
Not "Ug" Gore, the global warming cave man with his stone-age hockey sticks telling fellow troglodytes they had to stop cutting down trees for fire, and burning fields to catch game?

I always thought it was Ug and his mamma Ob (aka Ob-mamma) who ended stone-age man made global warming, reversed the rising sea levels, thus creating the Garden of Eden in the Persian Gulf... ?

So now after all these years, you tell us Ug Gore and his Ob-mamma have been getting credit they didn't deserve?
Well, then shhhhhhhhhh... don't tell anybody else.

;-)

[SunkenCiv]

BP is based on an absolute date, 1950 — that’s the radiocarbon baseline date.

[JRandomFreeper]

Yeah... I'm aware of all of that... it's one more calendar for me to track.

The way I normally track stuff, it's about 1341103503. Also based on an arbitrary date of Jan 1st, 1970. Plus or minus the leap second we're stacking on that today.

And of course, Gregorian.

But Julian, depending on if I'm reading old russian books.

We're old enough to pick ONE standard and stick with it.

And figure out what we mean about what a second is.

I bitch about time eternally.

/johnny

[SunkenCiv]

That Edgar Allen Poe short story must drive you haywire, eh? ;’)

[JRandomFreeper]

We'll not discuss that. ;)

But I DO know what standard was used during Poe's time, so to speak.

In the western world it was all the same.

Today? Gotta ask what time definition is in use. With or without leap seconds? Would you like a leap second with that?

Meh... My one little hotspot that I bitch about.

/johnny

[1010RD]

This post, along with Figure 1, correlates nicely with written history starting about 10,000 years ago.

So warm weather is pro-human which is consistent with all forms of liberalism which is anti-human. Hence the irrational preoccupation of liberals with global warming as a catastrophic event.

[Sawdring]

Randall Carlson talks about the Younger Dryas, climate change and other fun stuff.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping and the links...will check them tomorrow.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping and the links...will check them tomorrow.