Younger Dryas - Smoke and Fire Controversy

This video discusses the idea presented by the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis that extensive fires were caused by an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago.

[ZiggyDan]

Thanks for this, great work as always!

[dikdik]

Just found your channel and I must say you deliver incredibly good content.
Thank you for the work you put out there

[claudermiller]

I always think of ancient legends and myths when I see stuff like this. I'm thinking now how the survivors of Sodom and Gomorrah would have described a cosmic event like this. Perhaps they realized something strange was about to happen. Lot and his family decide to head into the hills and take shelter in a cave. Lot's wife decides to go back perhaps to retrieve something. All of a sudden hundreds of small meteorites start pummeling the region. There are impacts and airbursts. Everything is aflame like Dresden in WWII. When Lot and his daughters finally come out they find Mrs Lot a statue of burnt carbon which crumbles like salt. So many events we hear about growing up could all be traced back to a day 13, 000 years ago when everything was destroyed and lived on as myths and legends all over the world.

[einargulbrandsen]

I find it strange that in our time with education and science new knowledge is still treated the same way as 350 years ago when Galileo Galilei claimed that the sun was the center in our sol system. Inquisition of science still exist.

[andreassjoberg]

Just because fires DO appear naturally, it still does not prove that the YDI did NOT ALSO ignite fires. A high-energy impact, or more likely multiple-impact where a major impact combined with a "shotgun shot" of multiple smaller impacts hits in close conjunction could start theese fires. IF superheated material fragment deep in the atmosphere the sudden retardation can send a massive wave of thermal radiation that hit the ground together with a shockwave. If the season is right for forestfires, this could be the spark that ignites the seasonal fires that year, all at the same time. The heat could also instantly melt frozen mud followed by the shockwaves from the multiple airbursts that push it up and make craters.

[morgan]

No point in paying for college classes when one has videos like these.

[waynesbutler]

Another great one Antonio . One question though . I agree with the impact theory but I am confused with the series of events . You have a impact or a series of impacts possibly with some hitting the ice sheet . We had extensive fires especially here in North America based on sedimentary evidence and we had flooding from melted ice raising the oceans 400 feet . Whats the order of events or at least your opinion, I am trying to understand when the fires occurred and when the flooding occurred . Wouldn't be much to burn after the flooding I would think or did the flooding put the fires out . Plus whats your opinion on the mass coronal ejection theory based on the vitrification of rocks at a lot of these megalithic sites . Maybe a video or one that I have missed if this topic has been covered already ..

[Raptorman]

I've posted comments before questioning the validity of the Carolina Bays impact origins and the widely varying dates attributed to them, but I have to agree that those dates don't match up with the formation of the elliptical cavities -- there's no way in hell those cavities would even exist today if formed 800 kya and at 100 kya they would be only a few of them even remotely visible today. The dates associated with the formation of the cavities must be wrong and 12.8 kya seems a far more likely time-frame for there formation.
The shape and the fact that many of them overlap rules out wind or the flow of water as an explanation and the consistent angle of the long axis in an area and the way that angle changes as you move away from a given area certainly suggest a focus NW of the Carolina Bays and NE of the Nebraska Rainwater Basins. I'm unconvinced of the Saginaw Bay focus but an impact on the ice sheet seems to be the most logical conclusion even if the focus is some distance away from Saginaw Bay.
A low density object might deposit enormous energy onto the ice sheet and not leave an obvious crater. I would love to see Lawrence Livermore model this with varying size, mass and velocity objects as well as varying thickness ice sheets to see if there might be a signature in the ground that reveals the impact site even if no conventional crater is found.

[cfapps]

Thanks. I have an important question. Would a large impact cause maar craters to form in the nearby area just by the result of a severe impact?

[scot]

Look at swan hills in Alberta for a trajectory point. To me on google earth it lines up with the bays convergent length. And I know I’m not a geologist but it looks like a huge crater around swan hills. And from many miles up it appears as though a fluvial Traill emanates from the crater southward into the states and scab land etc.

[mysteriosamsqwanch]

Is there a relationship between the red clay of the Georgia Piedmont region and the Younger/Dryas...

[nai.]

How do we get heavy 110+ elements on the moon? How do we get cycles of ≈12, 000 year extinction boundaries and satisfy the impact evidence of boundry layers across the world with homogeneous layers on top? ^🌞^

[westlands]

The earthquake resulting from the impact would have been a Biblical disaster.

[rtod]

Were Pinter, et al, the one that said "statistically improbable" was the same as being impossible?

It's embarrassing when such people don't understand statistical modeling. Hell, they don't even understand basic statistics.

[jollyroger]

I wonder if impact denialists ever take a look at the moon !?

[karlp]

And where do you even mention the Greenland 31Km wide impact crater? Do you just actually ignore anything that doesn't fit your paradigm? If you knew anything at all about geology, you would know that to create a distinct layer like the YDB over most of the Northern hemisphere requires absolutely massive efflux of burning material. Not forest fires. And how do you account for the fact the YDB layer has shock quartz, nanodiamonds, extra-terrestrial elements in it, all totally consistent with a comet or asteroid impact. At 12.800 years ago. Exactly, it's been dated. I want to you remove yourself from commenting on anything, because you have zero scientific credibility as evidenced by this ridiculous video.