Posted on 05/16/2007 3:00:33 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
Bush’s fault.
Does Al Gore know about this? Does he know that there are things other than SUVs and power plant emissions that can cause changes in the earth’s climate? How did our cave man ancestors survive this global cooling?
It was easy. That's why a Cave Man could do it. /snic
whats an “extraterrestrial gas”?
isn’t chemistry consistent across the universe?
By staying in caves.
The meteor hits the atmosphere; makes a noise; the dams break; massive quantities of water spill out into the St. Lawrence and Mississippi valleys.
Those waters spread out over the Gulf of Mexico, etc. and interrupt the haline circulation in the North Atlantic.
A sudden refreeze happens. The Sa'ami find they can travel to America along the edge of the winter sea-ice (eating seals the whole way), and arrive there just in time to find all the large game dead, the sabertooth tigers and direwolves expired (from want of game), and the world to themselves as the TOP PREDATOR.
All makes sense. Yup.
About 4,000 years later the same sort of thing happens in Antarctica. Large icedams surround the (much extended) coast, kept cool by the circumpolar cyclone, and melt water backs up behind them.
A meteor hits the atmosphere with enough force to make a loud noise which causes cracks to occur in the icedams which then break.
Vast quantities of water are suddenly released into the ocean causing a tsunami that rushes Northward to flush every coast on Earth of every living thing.
Only those who lived on top the coastal mountains or far inland, or in deep caves, survived to tell the story.
Good show Lesser Dryas. You rarely see such detailed selectivity in a Climate Adjustment.
I’ve always thought that Hudson Bay could have been caused by a meteor.
More sensationalist studies aimed at getting maximum publicity, and hence maximum research grant $$$.
ping
How did all of the megafauna disappear worldwide in a short period? My hypothesis is that ancient man discovered that an atlatl with poison could be launched from a safe 100 yard range at critters large enough for a BIG BBQ. That’s why smaller game, e.g., deer survived and megafauna became extinct. The Aleuts used small harpoons thrown with atlatls from kayaks to kill 40 ton whales. They used aconite from the roots of Monkshood flowers as the poison. Nicotine would work too. A few hundred years of such BBQs and good times would increase the human population manyfold and wipe out animals vulnerable to such hunting techniques.
Mastadon BBQ
Just think of the ribs on that puppy.
Yum, yum.
Haven’t they found about 8 sites that were claimed to be the big one?
I must have said this 50 times on FR the last seven years but, does anyone listen to me, noooooo!
Others have suggested that it was a comet impact that began the end of the Ice Age earlier...reputable scientists at that.
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