If you want an Atlantis, just park it in the middle of the Amazon Basin.
Posted on 12/10/2015 1:17:32 PM PST by ArGee
Raqqa, Syria
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS, announced today that he would be disbanding all forces and returning all land to Syria and Iraq. The move was prompted by the ongoing Climate Conference in Paris.
"This is one thing we could not have anticipated," Mr. al-Baghdadi said in prepared remarks. "When we see the world coming together like this on such a dangerous subject as Global Climate Change, we realize that our Caliphate will never survive. It's only a matter of time before Climate Change is no more and the world's attention turns to us. At that point, we will have no chance. For the sake of the men, women, and children who have supported us, I can not continue a doomed campaign."
An emotional al-Baghdadi did not take any questions.
Sources close to al-Baghdadi who spoke on the condition of anonymity told us that it was becoming more and more difficult to recruit new fighters. "Even our existing people are extremely demoralized," one said. "The words of Donald Trump himself can not overcome our dispair."
According to their press release, surrender is total and immediate. Fighters are being paid and sent home by division. Any remaining money will be put into a fund to resettle Christians and Yazidis who have been displaced by the war.
"We thought the world was fragmented," one strategist was overheard saying to himself. "Who knew it could come together like this? This is a stinging rebuke."
So far there has been no comment from Damascus, Baghdad, Moscow, or Washington. One source inside the Kremlin said, "We are waiting to see if there will be any follow-up action. We want to make sure this is real before we decide on our next steps."
There’s a lot of stuff in the ground in Britain, largely thanks to A) the Romans and B) the post-Roman waves of invasion, during which the natives buried assets for later recovery, then couldn’t go back for it (driven off, enslaved, or killed). A guy I once met who grew up in the UK had two or three high-end specialized detectors, and had a lot of experience, really knew where to look. I never asked him and he never told me, but I’d venture a wild guess that his finds were underreported.
I mostly find bottle caps.
Go back far enough and there's little metal to be discovered. They're finding artifacts of one sort or another in the former Doggerland and Beringia, but metals are in short supply.
However the depths of the Black Sea are saline and anoxic. Even some organic material can be expected to survive there. The problem is visibility. For anyone who wants to fund the research, I can help with clearing up that visibility problem; it isn't called the Black Sea for nothing.
But maybe someday you’ll make a real discovery!
Black Sea Trip Yields No Flood Conclusions
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When my father was in Israel, he visited the ruins of Caesarea Maritima with his IDF counterparts in the nuclear weapons logistics biz. He did not dive (he barely swam), but they went on a boat tour.
He also played golf there. Presumably the Caesarea golf course in on high ground.
It’s not so much that we need “To Prove That Noah’s Flood Formed Black Sea” as to consider that the inundation of the Black Sea formed Noah’s Flood.
That’s quite a facility — it represents the best-preserved ancient construction of an ‘artificial’ port, along a coast with few natural coves, bays, etc.
And neither premise is true. Putting "Noah's Flood" into a book title is akin to including "Atlantis" -- it's there to catch some attention and boost sales. If anything, Ryan and Pitman had a backburner agenda of undermining the Noah tale.
Or even that the inundation of the Black Sea is a major geologic event that colors all the geology and archaeology of the area. Our preconceptions have to affect our interpretation of observable facts, but they shouldn’t affect accurate reporting of what’s there to be seen.
By comparison with the coast lines that were extant 10,000 years ago, we are all on higher ground.
Please note that many coastal caves, with stalactites and stalagmites that are currently under water, took many centuries of being dry for those encrustations to form.
I would love to see it. Dad and I talked about a trip to Israel - I was even studying modern Hebrew - but then I kept having babies and he came down with Alzheimer’s Disease. Mom did an Israel-and-Egypt tour with her friends around 2000, but I don’t know if they saw Caesarea.
Good point. I’m not that familiar with underwater caves, although I sometimes read articles about cave diving. I don’t think I would have enough fun with that, although I’ve got nothing against either caving or diving.
If you want an Atlantis, just park it in the middle of the Amazon Basin.
Sounds like fun, regardless!
Formerly occupied but now submerged caves are known, for example, from offshore of the French Mediterranean coast. The continual glaciation that began 2 mllion years ago or thereabouts moved water out of the oceans and kept it at greater elevations, stored as ice.
I like that closing sentence -- "future decision-making could be made based on scientific data and not on political expediency". I wouldn't count on it, but that would be great.Caves reveal clues to UK weatherAt Pooles Cavern in Derbyshire, it was discovered that the stalagmites grow faster in the winter months when it rains more. Alan Walker, who guides visitors through the caves, says the changes in rainfall are recorded in the stalactites and stalagmites like the growth rings in trees. Stalagmites from a number of caves have now been analysed by Dr Andy Baker at Newcastle University. After splitting and polishing the rock, he can measure its growth precisely and has built up a precipitation history going back thousands of years. His study suggests this autumn's rainfall is not at all unusual when looked at over such a timescale but is well within historic variations. He believes politicians find it expedient to blame a man-made change in our weather rather than addressing the complex scientific picture.
by Tom Heap
Saturday, December 2, 2000
I'll be interested to know if there is any elevation of rarer isotopes of other elements, particularly near the North Pole.Stalagmites reveal past climateThe researchers examined four stalagmites from Crevice Cave, the longest cave known in Missouri, located about 75 miles south of St. Louis. The stalagmites appeared to have been broken by natural forces such as floods or earthquakes and were found about 80 feet below the ground surface, says Dorale. The team determined when the stalagmite layers were deposited, then deduced paleotemperatures and the general types of vegetation growing in the vicinity during that era by examining the carbon and oxygen isotopes within the calcium carbonate. The profile showed that the area had been covered by forest 75,000 years ago, but by 71,000 years ago, it was savannah and by 59,000 years ago, had become a prairie. Between 55,000 and 25,000 years ago, the forest had returned and persisted. Dorale explains that the pattern is consistent with climatological records from the ocean.
by Kristina Bartlett and Devra Wexler
Mom’s done a lot of international travel - she’s a USAir retiree - but the Nile Cruise was one of the best experiences, she said.
What is your hypothesis for an explanation of that, should such be the finding? I'm surmising that all the forest versus grassland conjecture is merely observing different isotope ratios produced by trees rather than grasses, but all depending on local rainfall at the time.
I can't see how latitude would affect the rarity or abundance of other isotopes.
It doesn't have to do with latitude, it has to do with the rare stuff having come from space. Eventually, when someone finally looks for them, impact structures will be found on the Arctic sea floor, left there by the bolides which caused the glaciations.
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