Guest commentary by David Middleton YDIH = Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis YDB = Younger Dryas Boundary Last month I shot a big hole in the latest YDIH paper. This Science News article shoots another big hole in it. The irony is that both of these particular holes were preexisting conditions: The contradictory data were either…
One of the problems with so called “science writers” in the mainstream media today is that few of them have the wherewithal and training to do some basic sanity checking. Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post illustrates this lack of competence perfectly in a piece this weekend titled: In Norfolk, evidence of climate change is…
There’s a new paper in PNAS worth having a look at. It seems the authors found some very strong evidence for a comet or asteroid impact during the period known as the Younger Dryas. According to Wikipedia: The Younger Dryas stadial, also referred to as the Big Freeze, was a geologically brief (1,300 ± 70…