To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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
To: JRandomFreeper
Maybe it is used because the Globe's inhabitants us multiple calenders....just my speculation.
Maybe someone comments at WUWT on the article.
4 posted on
06/21/2012 10:38:29 AM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: JRandomFreeper
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.
34 posted on
06/24/2012 8:49:43 PM PDT by
ThanhPhero
(Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
To: JRandomFreeper
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....
35 posted on
06/24/2012 9:02:32 PM PDT by
Mike Darancette
(Ineptocracy; the Obama way.)
To: JRandomFreeper
BP is based on an absolute date, 1950 — that’s the radiocarbon baseline date.
42 posted on
06/30/2012 5:40:59 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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