[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

[Antony Barry]

On 06/02/2007, at 5:50 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> I recall seeing a television program a few years ago that discussed  
> the Dark Ages, and it seems that they really were the dark ages.   
> By doing analysis of growth rings on old trees (mainly in the  
> northern hemisphere) they were able to determine that there was  
> some cataclysmic event occurred in about the mid 800s AD that  
> lasted for about 20 years and resulted in reduced plant growth and  
> lowered global temperatures.

Then there is the Toba hypothesis that explains the lack of human  
genetic diversity by the explosion of the Toba volcano ~70,000 years  
ago. The idea is that it almost wiped us out globally. <http:// 
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/09/980908074159.htm>

Tony


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