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Michael Mann's professional success has spectacularly demonstrated that the denialists' strategy doesn't work

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Broecker’s esteem among scientists was not diminished when he changed his mind. The Younger Dryas impact proponents would do well to follow his example.

If we were lucky, we might discover the offending asteroid far enough in advance to have one chance. Such a mission would require many years or even decades to successfully pull off, so it is urgent business to rapidly discover as many asteroids as possible. Recognizing this, Starmus II contributors Grigory Richters and Brian May, along with astronomer Martin Rees, created the Asteroid Day declaration…

We each have the individual right to radiate, and if you block my photon with one of your carbon dioxide molecules, you owe me just compensation

A major theme running throughout Ancient Apocalypse is Graham Hancock‘s persecution complex. Archaeologists are picking on him, he says, because “I am trying to overthrow the paradigm of history.” Hancock fails to understand that “just asking questions” is unlikely to create a scientific revolution. Especially when he appeals to a hypothetical comet catastrophe that violates the laws of physics, contradicts astronomical data, ignores the geological record, and defies logic. When scientists ask to see data, it’s not persecution. It’s science.

This event changed the way we think about the vulnerability of our own planet, and planetary defense is now a subject of serious scientific studies and regular international meetings.

Imagine the science and safety we could achieve by finding space rocks like Chelyabinsk before they enter our atmosphere. On the ten-year anniversary of this remarkable event it is appropriate to ask how we can do better next time.

The scientific community’s rejection of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) is demonstrated by the large and growing volume of skeptical literature documented in this bibliography of eighty publications.

Did author and Hollywood screenwriter Michael Crichton launch the term “climate change denier” and pretend it was a reference to Holocaust deniers to stir up faux outrage against climate scientists?

The new Netflix series seeks to connect human prehistory to the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH), inspired by scientific models of the Tunguska and Libyan Desert Glass airbursts. Can this catastrophist theory of past civilizations be decoded using the science of cosmic impacts? Stay tuned.

Former TV weather personality Mark Ronchetti thinks that the answer to climate change is more logging. Bad for forests. Bad for climate change. Bad for New Mexico.

Fifteen years ago today, devotees of a fringe theory about a comet and an ancient culture attempted to rebrand it as science. On October 9, 2007, a would-be paradigm-changing paper was published. Fifteen years of withering skepticism by mainstream scientists has only increased its pseudoscientific appeal, and advocates are now marketing it to consumers of pseudoarcheology and other fringe ideas.

Malcolm LeCompte, a co-founder and director of Comet Research Group, collaborated with original authors of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis to “independently” evaluate their own evidence.

In the twelve years that have passed since this paper came out, I have not seen any published confirmations based on the samples that were sent all over the world, nor have I seen any publication based on the samples that were collected in 2010.