[JRandomFreeper]

Am I the only one that hates the BP time notation? Before Present? To know an absolute date, you have to know the date of 'Present'.

What is wrong with using standard Gregorian dates, or Hebrew years, or something that is NOT a relative measurement. /rant off

Thanks for posting this. I've always been interested in the Younger Dryas era and the following warming.

/johnny

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Maybe it is used because the Globe's inhabitants us multiple calenders....just my speculation.

Maybe someone comments at WUWT on the article.

[ThanhPhero]

BP is used because anything smacking of Christian derived notation must be eradicated. BCE and CE were tried but they turn out to not be so suitable because people keep reading them as "Before Christian Era" and "Christian Era" and that is just oh, so offensive and insensitive to Moslems and atheists.

I assume that PH- Post Hegira would be the norm by now but Moslems are not all that clear just when H was and there are several date systems stemming from it. Choosing one would upset adherents of the others.

[Mike Darancette]

What is wrong with using standard Gregorian dates, or Hebrew years, or something that is NOT a relative measurement. /rant off

How about 14,000 Winters ago, or many moons have passed since....

[SunkenCiv]

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