Ooh, good idea.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
Posted on 05/20/2025 7:48:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Approximately 14,000 years ago, the unprecedented solar event—now judged to be the most powerful known to have occurred—marked Earth’s transition into the Holocene epoch, according to the findings of an international team of scientists.
The team traces the event to around 12,350 BC using a new climate-chemistry model specifically designed to reconstruct ancient solar particle activity. This expands the known timeline for ancient solar storms and raises the bar on the upper boundaries of their intensity.
Although the event in question was already known from past observations of radiocarbon spikes in ancient wood samples, its scale and magnitude remained unknown.
Now, thanks to a unique model employed by researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland led by postdoctoral researcher Kseniia Golubenko and Professor Ilya Usoskin, the ancient storm is recognized as being 18% more intense than the next strongest solar event of similar character, which occurred in AD 775 based on data from tree-ring data.
The discovery was made possible by the team’s specially designed SOCOL:14C-Ex model, which also showed the extremity of the event from 14,000 years ago compared with the most powerful solar storms of recent years.
“Compared to the largest event of the modern satellite era — the 2005 particle storm — the ancient 12,350 BC event was over 500 times more intense, according to our estimates,” Dr. Golubenko said.
Golubenko notes that the scale of such storms in the past reveals the potential that storms of similar magnitude could occur again. The impact such solar activity might have on modern infrastructure, including satellites, electrical grids, and communication systems, could be vastly underestimated.
“This event establishes a new worst-case scenario,” Golubenko said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedebrief.org ...
I think you are missing the point of the “art.”
Art takes time. It takes practice. Hungry, stupid, nomadic people do not have the “time” for art. It is a luxury.
500 times more intense than any ever, but only 18% more intense than a recent one.
Hmmmm.... huh?
One day we will get zapped!
Get some SPF5000 sunscreen.
Fear sells. It happened 14,000 years ago so it could happen again next week?
A far more likely event is that all journalists and self-styled intellectuals are rounded up, imprisoned and executed. It happened a mere 50 years ago.
“Could it happen again”?
Heh, if you listen to his podcast, every once in a while when he or one of his team says something wrong, stupid, or ill advised, someone kicks off a sound clip of a large gong followed by a deep, echoing voice saying “ADMONISH!”
I chuckle every time I hear it...
This time frame sounds close to the possible major boloid even in Northern Hemisphere of Americas and probably Europe/Siberia writing up by Firestone etc al. Where these two different events? If so, did they occur at about the same time? If they did occur around the same time, they would have been a double shock to many systems. I think we should stop blaming people for the extinction of most of the large mammals in North America. Clovis culture disappeared about that time, and finally people should get serious about finding what in the way of humanity was here before those events.
The recent discovery of sapiens in a cave’s depths on Asia shows what can happen when people change their time perspective. These sapiens were there at least 20,000 years earlier than had previously been discovered. What will we find digging deep here. What human remains might exit from the last warm periods over 100,000 years ago? Digging deep in caves seems to be the way to find the really old remains.
Ooh, good idea.
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
14k years ago there were no civilizations on earth.
The first cities are 7kya
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