Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · yt0.758

   Some discharge of course but not on the scale of Heinrich events as we'll see a continental ice sheet covering most of North America during uh the last glacial period. other, now get this, other northern hemisphere ice sheets were potentially involved as well, such as the Fenoscandic and Iceland, Greenland. So, OB that's northwestern Europe. So, it's it's suggesting here that they were potentially involved as well in disgorging icebergs into the North Atlantic from Greenland, from Iceland, and from northern Western Europe. However, the initial cause of the instability is still de debated, righ…

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2. 02 · yt0.754

   With the publication of the Firestone at al paper in 2007, evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megaponal extinctions and the younger dest cooling. We have made a major advance I believe towards some kind of resolution of the ice age conundrum. But we aren't there yet. uh the five authors of this new paper go on to elaborate upon the paradox right look at the name here rapid delaciation of eastern Maine okay what they're doing here is they're saying here uh the paradox is that well they're about to define the paradox okay um so it begins with conflic…

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3. 03 · yt0.753

   So, one of the points they're making here is that you've got many miles of uh continental shelf exposed during the late glacial maximum and the glaciers didn't end the the margin of the glaciers cving off these icebergs were not at the pro modern coastline but extended out to near the edge of the continental shelf. And then when we're talking now about the recession and thinning of that ice sheet, it's actually starting out there 30 40 50 miles further east uh than than one than the present day coastline. So all of that has to recede first before you even start seeing the evidence of recession…

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4. 04 · yt0.748

   So anyways, this was a study going back to 1989 where they were first realizing that the term they use as monotonic. The rise of sea level wasn't a smooth curve. There was at least two pulses what they say uh two intervals of rapid rise which have come to be called meltwater pulse 1A and meltwater pulse 1b. Right? So uh at this point they don't have the detailed uh uh dating of this. Um so let's see changes in continental goes on changes in continental ice volume during the last deglaciation generally have been for inferred from two direct sources geological mapping of the retreating ice margi…

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5. 05 · yt0.747

   Because the implication of the Firestone at Alaper is that it's largely going to be at least probably to a great extent explained the younger dus explained by the impact of objects into an ice sheet into an icy environment. Now that was in then just jumping ahead to 2007. Um the most famous paper was preceded by this one when they discovered micrometeorite impacts in bingi and mammoth tusks in the bison skull. And there's a lot about this on George Howard's uh cosmic tusk website. So I don't think we need to uh dive into that here. I think we'll skip past that and get right to the like it says…

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6. 06 · yt0.745

   To provide some resolution to this still unanswered question, Hall at Al propose what they term seasonality, wherein, as they explain, quote, a proposed explanation of these seemingly desperate proxy records is seasonality, whereby warming summer temperatures during the termination led to glacier contraction and high meltwater flux into the North Atlantic. In turn, this meltwater from the rapidly melting glaciers led to ocean stratification, increased winter sea ice, and extraordinarily cold winter temperatures. Okay. And you and I discussed where we thought this didn't quite add up. Uh, I go …

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7. 07 · yt0.744

   And when the ice sheets melted and sea levels rose, a process that was neither gradual nor uniform, but punctuated by dramatic flood pulses, as ice dams failed and glacial lakes discharged catastrophically, the coastal civilization would have been progressively inundated. its physical remains swallowed by water that is now too deep in most places for conventional archaeological survey. We have explored by most estimates less than 20% of the ocean floor in any meaningful detail. What lies beneath the rest is for now beyond our reach. This is where the argument becomes genuinely difficult to res…

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8. 08 · yt0.742

   Uh the younger dus stadial. Okay, very briefly. I've explained this before but it never hurts to reiterate a little bit. Okay, you've got let's go. So you got full glacial, interglacial, full glacial, 15 to 20,000 years ago, 6 million cubic miles of ice, temperatures 10° colder worldwide, etc., etc. Interglacial like right now. Okay, now those are think of those as two extremes. And we can see in the record of climate change that um the climate has oscillated between glacial and interglacial with wide swings. But there's also you probably even more lesser swings where it doesn't go to full int…

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9. 09 · yt0.736

   Um "One of the main difficulties facing Quaternary geologists." Now, let's pause for a minute to remind us, what is Quaternary? Quaternary is the last two geological epochs, the current one, the Holocene, the previous one, the Pleistocene. Those two taken together constitute the Quaternary. Now, the the age of the Quaternary has been constantly adjusted as we learn more about the dating. It used to be oh, a million and a half years totally. Now, it's actually pushed back to about two and a half million years, a little bit longer even. Mhm. Now, that's interesting because what what we see and w…

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10. 10 · yt0.734

    Now, [clears throat] somewhere around there, the climate started warming from the late glacial maximum. Sea levels started coming up, say around 14 12 to 15,000 years ago. Slowly they started coming up but at about 146 there was a massive pulse of meltwater to the ocean. What was driving that? I don't know for sure. But then uh come 12,000 just around 12 a little bit less than 12,900 years ago is the lower younger dus boundary. And this is where the controversy is surrounding uh what happened there. It was a very sharp and sudden return to full glacial cold after several thousand years of grad…

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