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Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists
Telegraph ^ | 04/02/10

Posted on 04/02/2010 4:06:27 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Hour-long hailstorm may have caused 1,000-year freeze, say scientists

An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say.

Published: 8:00AM BST 02 Apr 2010

An hour-long hailstorm from space may have changed the climate of the Earth in 11,000 BC, leading to a freeze lasting more than 1,000 years, scientists say.

A comet may well have caused the earth to freeze for over 1,000 years Photo: GETTY

The catastrophe, caused by a disintegrating comet, wiped out large numbers of animal species and disrupted human cultures.

A new theory put forward by according to Professor Bill Napier, from the Cardiff University Astrobiology Centre suggests it occurred when the Earth strayed into a dense trail of fragments shed by a large comet.

Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each one releasing the energy of a one megaton nuclear bomb.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billnapier; bolide; catastrophism; cloviscomet; clovisimpact; comet; godsgravesglyphs; iceage; impact; lakecuitzeo; mexico; napier; next; nope; stalactites; stalagmites; youngerdryas
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To: johniegrad
Idiot congressman didn't even know that all islands are heavily packed with styrofoam on the underside to make sure they don't sink.

But at least he's well versed enough in hydrostatics to understand that putting all that buoyancy below the waterline results in an unstable hull, prone to capsizing, unlike the ignoramus martinet of an admiral.

61 posted on 04/03/2010 4:47:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: Fresh Wind
A hailstorm causes wildfires?

That occurred to me, too. From the context is appears (but how can you be sure?) that he means a hail of meteorites.

62 posted on 04/03/2010 4:50:25 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The catastrophe, caused by a disintegrating comet

That is one theory. Another theory is it was
caused by collateral damage from this:

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63 posted on 04/03/2010 5:03:11 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Smokin' Joe
Carolina Bays


64 posted on 04/03/2010 5:28:57 AM PDT by blam
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To: ClearCase_guy
...and we were going into a 1000 year freeze! We had floods! And hailstorms! Comets were whizzing past us!

Dogs and cats were living together! Lions and tigers an bears, oh my!

65 posted on 04/03/2010 6:31:48 AM PDT by uglybiker (BACON!!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

....”and the fountains of “the great deep” were opened up”. Genesis

I’ve been seeing a rash of these stories from scientists lately who aren’t necessarily Bible scholars citing evidences of “at least regional floods” or sudden coolings causing great deluges”, ect.

What are scientists discovering that has them being dragged kicking and screaming towards a biblical account of the Great Flood?


66 posted on 04/03/2010 6:39:59 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Mike Mathis is my name,opinions are my own,subject to flaming when deserved!)
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To: blam
Thanks, blam

It sure looks like a possibility. Apparently the post-Clovis/YD boundary carbon layer is present in at least some of those features as well. I'm going to have to find out more about that.

67 posted on 04/03/2010 7:47:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv

So thousands (thousands? More like millions? Wouldn’t it take millions or even billions of ice chunks to freeze the earth?) of one-megaton nuclear explosions cooled the earth?

So now the AGW weenies will be advocating above-ground nuclear testing to defeat warming, right? Right?


68 posted on 04/03/2010 8:06:09 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: RegulatorCountry

Oh. I thought you were just lithping about the big, black beatht.


69 posted on 04/03/2010 8:12:49 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

It would take anywhere between one and whatever. :’) Depends on the mass and velocity of the chunk or chunks.


70 posted on 04/03/2010 8:26:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

what are those nuts in England smoking???

I can get better predictions from the drunks in Pershing Square.


71 posted on 04/03/2010 8:32:02 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: johniegrad

Well, the styrofoam keeps them from sinking, but they really need a keel to keep them from capsizing.

I think the Congressman should sponsor a bill entitled:

An Act to Keep Islands on an Even Keel.

The act would provide a stimulus package for building keels under all U.S. territorial islands such as Hawaii, Virgen Islands, Samoa, Guam, etc. and the Dems could tell the public they were focused, as Pelosi said, on three letter words-—jobs, jobs, jobs.


72 posted on 04/04/2010 9:02:09 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv
There has been research focused on a meteor or asteroid strike causing a massive melt and/or breakup of an ice dam on the Canadian ice sheet, resulting in a shut down of the Gulf Stream and onset of the Younger Dryas.

As I understand this summary, which omits the "research," this guy is saying it wasn't a single strike, but the Earth wandering into the remains of a broken up comet that was the triggering event. Sorta like the Millennium Falcon going into the remains of Alderaan.

It really is a scandal that anyone doing this kind of research has to throw in an obligatory reference to the global warming hoax. I guess they have to do that to get funding.

73 posted on 04/05/2010 12:05:47 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: TigerLikesRooster; SunkenCiv; All

Gee, doesn’t professor Napier give Firestone, et al any credit. Seems to me they were there first with a lot more.


74 posted on 04/05/2010 10:26:41 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Smokin' Joe; SunkenCiv; All

Read the book by Firestone that Sunken Civ has posted here. It is fascinating and answers a lot of questions.


75 posted on 04/05/2010 10:32:53 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: colorado tanker

If you just needed a slug of really cold water, drain Lake Agassiz. It had to have happened sometime...


76 posted on 04/06/2010 5:50:29 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I sometimes let the faucet run until I get the coldest water up from the underground pipes, so’s I get a nice, cold drink, but isn’t draining Lake Agassiz taking it a tad too far??? :-))


77 posted on 04/06/2010 10:41:31 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

I think they do it annually in Grand Forks...I was there for the flood of ‘79 and that was an impressive mess.


78 posted on 04/06/2010 3:36:49 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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