Hi,

I am mathematically challenged to the point where I not expert enough to evaluate Dr. Barbiero's
calculations. However, he still has yet to abandon Hapood's and Hibben's antiquated databases
and interpretations of Quaternary geology and incorporate modern data and paleoenvironmental
interpretations. For example, the fine-grained sediments found a single Ross Sea core that Hapgood
use to infer ice-free, Antarctic rivers dumping sediments into an ice-free Ross Sea are now known
on the basis of their diatom founa and associated glacial sedimentary facies to have accumulated
beneath a permanent Ice Shelf occupying the Ross Sea in front of a continental ice sheet. The tree's
found in Hibben's Pleistocene muck are older the Last Glacial Maximum and therefore it cannot be
associated with either the terminal Pleistocene extinctions or any contenporaneous hypothetical
catastrophe. Italian style "decimal commas" are rather immaterial, because abrupt Pole Shift
is still based on antiquated and discredited interpretations and a lot of geological and paleontological
misinformation. It is basically, it is theory in search of data to explain unless he has revised
his ideas to account for what now known about the Pleistocene. Besides, there are now
interdisciplinary groups of geologists, geochemists,archaeologists, paleontologists, palynologists,
and so forth developing and testing new ideas that account for known paleoenvironmental
proxy data.

For example, they include:

Algeo, T.J. and Shen, J., 2023. Theory and classification of mass extinction causation. National
Science Review, p.nwad237, open access
[academic.oup.com]

Sudakow, I., Myers, C., Petrovskii, S., Sumrall, C.D. and Witts, J., 2022. Knowledge gaps and
missing links in understanding mass extinctions: Can mathematical modeling help?. Physics of
Life Reviews, 41, pp.22-57.
[www.sciencedirect.com]

Nawrot, R., Scarponi, D., Azzarone, M., Dexter, T.A., Kusnerik, K.M., Wittmer, J.M., Amorosi,
A. and Kowalewski, M., 2018. Stratigraphic signatures of mass extinctions: ecological and
sedimentary determinants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
285(1886), p.20181191.
[royalsocietypublishing.org]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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