re: Real climate cataclysm: Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales (Netflix)

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The Burckle Crater impact is speculated to be Noah's flood...

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First time I've heard that. Sounds like a stretch.

What isn't a stretch is various unrelated cultures from aboriginal Americans to Asians to Persians all with flood stories. All emanating from the same timeframe. That timeframe included massive inland lakes formed from glacial melt. They were held in place by ice dams or tenuous terrain. These were eventually overtopped, and gave way. The result was massive rapid flooding on an unimaginable scale.

E.g., Over nine months, Lake Agassiz released a volume of water equivalent to that of the Great Lakes. Such torrent releases formed many of the world's great canyons, and almost certainly account for the Noah story as well.

Graham Hancock’s new Netflix series is very interesting. It's actually a solid watch.

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They were clearly something more than just hunter gatherers.

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They were Hunter gatherers with a knowledge of the stars. They didn’t possess some advanced technology IMO.

They just tracked stars very carefully over thousands of years. It was basically their television when the lights went out at night. They weren’t doing advanced calculations. They tracked the summer and winter solstices and major constellations in the sky. It’s interesting but I don’t think it’s evidence of an advanced civilization.

I do think he has a point that the majority of prime land that would be occupied by these civilizations are under water and we may be missing a lot of history because of that fact.

I agree. I believe they were more advanced than we currently think, and the evidence likely lies at the bottom of the ocean.

The verified megaliths from the era show that they were capable builders and were somewhat settled in one area - not a characteristic of nomadic hunter gatherers living in caves and grass huts. The astrology is also interesting. Understanding the moon phases and stars would have been essential for agriculture.

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Other than cold fronts, meteorologists is a statistics job at best. These fricks sometimes can't predict within an hour what's going to happen in the summer. They expect me to trust them to predict 5 or 10 years in the future.


They have literally been COMPLETELY WRONG about the future going back to the 60's. Sooner or later if you throw enough shite on the wall some is bound to stick.

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Exactly. Why should we base any policy off their guesses? I think we would all agree that we need to minimize our environmental impact, but certainly not to the point that they are trying to legislate.

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No doubt the proliferation of large farm animals and their production of greenhouse gases made for a drastically warmer planet as the Neolithic Age transitioned into the Bronze Age.

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Let's assume, for 1 second, your statement is true. How is a warmer earth a bad thing?

Ice age floods literally shaped eastern WA and the Columbia gorge along the WA/OR border. We learned about it in high school. Only it was presented as a “this is what happens after ice ages, duh,” and not climate change alarmism

Its not true. I'm not sure how any serious person with a functional knowledge of the size and scale of the earth, and the cataclysmic eras she has endured throughout history, could believe something as meaningless as the behavior of a single species could manipulate the climate.

The focus should be on conservation and cleaning up pollution of all kinds. Not co-opting the energy economy by using an doomsday prophesy to make it illegal in its current form.

Fascinating thread

This was caused by burning too much mastodon dung.