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- When Climate Change Really Was an Existential Threat Sat, 2 Sep 23, 7:00amGuest “Could have used the Extinction Rebellion back then!” by David Middleton, What was going on from 1,000-800 ka that may have nearly wiped out our ancestors? Temperatures plunged, glaciers…
- Younger Dryas Myth-Busting: Flash-Frozen Mammoths Edition Tue, 27 Jul 21, 7:00pmGuest “Pleistocene elephant hunting” by David Middleton “The body of this mammoth was found perfectly preserved in the Siberian tundra with food still in its mouth and stomach indicating that…
- Start of “Dog-ocene” dated to at least 28,500 years ago Fri, 21 Feb 20, 9:00pmGuest post by David Middleton Two of my favorite things are dogs and the Pleistocene… New Study Results Consistent With Dog Domestication During Ice Ageby Matt McGowan | Feb 19, 2020 | Advancing the Data Revolution,...
- Climate change was bad for Neanderthal children in the Pleistocene! And so was the lead-poisoning! Fri, 2 Nov 18, 4:06amGuest commentary by David Middleton In addition to an email from Rush Holt encouraging me to vote in the midterm elections (I already voted against every Democrat on the ballot), The American Association for the Advancement...
- Paper: ‘Summer temperatures were about 10°C warmer than today, even though the concentration of atmospheric CO2 was similar’ Sat, 22 Jun 13, 4:51amFrom AAAS: From Russia with Lovely Data Climate and the atmospheric concentration of CO2 are closely linked. Brigham-Grette et al. (p. 1421, published online 9 May) present data from Lake El’gygytgyn, in northeast Arctic...
- Multiple, Intense, Abrupt Late Pleistocene Warming And Cooling: Implications For Understanding The Cause Of Global Climate Change Mon, 3 Jun 13, 4:00amGuest essay by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The results of oxygen isotope measurements from ice cores in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets several decades ago...
- Multiple, Intense, Abrupt Late Pleisitocene Warming And Cooling: Implications For Understanding The Cause Of Global Climate Change Mon, 3 Jun 13, 4:00amGuest essay by Dr. Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA The results of oxygen isotope measurements from ice cores in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets several decades ago...
- On certainty: Truth is the Daughter of Time Tue, 4 Dec 12, 6:00amThis comment from Dr. Robert Brown at Duke University is elevated from a comment to a full post for further discussion. Since we have a new paper (Shepherd et al) that is being touted in the media as “certain”...
- Onset of the Next Glaciation Sun, 16 Sep 12, 5:01pmGuest post by David Archibald Baby boomers like me have enjoyed the most benign period in human history. The superpower nuclear standoff gave us fifty years of relative peace, we had cheap energy from inherent over-supply...
- The Intriguing Problem Of The Younger Dryas—What Does It Mean And What Caused It? Wed, 20 Jun 12, 6:00amThis is a follow up posting to Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! Guest post by Don J. Easterbrook Dept. of Geology, Western Washington University. The Younger Dryas was a period of rapid cooling in the late Pleistocene...