Sep 2, 2017 01:43 PM
How Flood Basalts Eruptions Cause Mass Extinctions
http://big-volcanic.com/flood-basalt-extinctions/
EXCERPT: [...] Now, with respect to being scientific, it’s important to understand that correlation does not equal causation. Most flood basalt events can occur for as long as one million years. With that in mind, and with the many past flood basalt events that have occurred, it would only be logical to assume that quite a few flood basalts naturally coincided with periods of extinction. Another interesting point is that there have been many flood basalt events that have notably not caused extinctions in the past, such as the Columbia river flood basalts, which are the youngest flood basalts on the planet. Since we do not have a time machine to jump back into each extinction event, determining whether these flood basalts were the true cause of each extinction requires close examination and detailed understanding of how the flood basalts may have caused a massive loss of life on the planet....
Bogus affiliation scuttles paper on Atlantic currents
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/09/01/bo...-currents/
EXCERPT: An oceanography journal has retracted a 2017 paper by a group of researchers in China after learning from a reader that one of the authors had a bogus affiliation in the United States. The paper, “Southward migrations of the Atlantic Equatorial Currents during the Younger Dryas,” appeared in early spring in Limnology and Oceanography, a publication of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (limnology is the study of fresh-water bodies). It had three authors: one from Shanghai, one from Wuhan and one, a Chaoyang Zhang, identified as being on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology (otherwise known as Georgia Tech). But that last part was false — no Chaoyang Zhang works at Georgia Tech. Alarm bells sounded, the journal investigated and turned up other reasons to be concerned about the paper....
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http://big-volcanic.com/flood-basalt-extinctions/
EXCERPT: [...] Now, with respect to being scientific, it’s important to understand that correlation does not equal causation. Most flood basalt events can occur for as long as one million years. With that in mind, and with the many past flood basalt events that have occurred, it would only be logical to assume that quite a few flood basalts naturally coincided with periods of extinction. Another interesting point is that there have been many flood basalt events that have notably not caused extinctions in the past, such as the Columbia river flood basalts, which are the youngest flood basalts on the planet. Since we do not have a time machine to jump back into each extinction event, determining whether these flood basalts were the true cause of each extinction requires close examination and detailed understanding of how the flood basalts may have caused a massive loss of life on the planet....
Bogus affiliation scuttles paper on Atlantic currents
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/09/01/bo...-currents/
EXCERPT: An oceanography journal has retracted a 2017 paper by a group of researchers in China after learning from a reader that one of the authors had a bogus affiliation in the United States. The paper, “Southward migrations of the Atlantic Equatorial Currents during the Younger Dryas,” appeared in early spring in Limnology and Oceanography, a publication of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (limnology is the study of fresh-water bodies). It had three authors: one from Shanghai, one from Wuhan and one, a Chaoyang Zhang, identified as being on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology (otherwise known as Georgia Tech). But that last part was false — no Chaoyang Zhang works at Georgia Tech. Alarm bells sounded, the journal investigated and turned up other reasons to be concerned about the paper....
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