A series of publications purport to provide evidence that the Earth was subjected to an
extraterrestrial event or events at∼ 12.9 ka creating an environmental cataclysm and the …

Climatic warming from the last glacial maximum to the current interglacial period was
punctuated by a∼ 1300 years long cold period, commonly referred to as the Younger Dryas …

The Holocene temperature discrepancy between paleoclimate reconstructions and climate
model simulations—known as the Holocene temperature conundrum—calls for new high …

The progress of science has sometimes been unjustifiably delayed by the premature
rejection of a hypothesis for which substantial evidence existed and which later achieved …

At Abu Hureyra, a well-studied archeological site in Syria, the onset boundary of the
Younger Dryas climatic episode~ 12,800 years ago has previously been proposed to …

Abstract The Yangtze River Basin is a crucial region in the monsoon region of China, and
reconstructing its hydrological and precipitation evolution is important for developing a more …

Andean mountain glaciers in central Chile are in a transitional zone between the seasonal
influence of the mid-latitude westerlies and subtropical semiarid conditions to the north …

The results of study of lacustrine sediments of Northeastern Russia are presented. The
reasons for the extremely high values of magnetic susceptibility are considered for the …

Peer review has long been regarded as the gold standard of scientific publication, essential
to the integrity of science itself. But, as any publishing scientist knows, peer review has its …

Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) stadial is the last extreme cold event detected in the
northern hemisphere during the last deglaciation. Many theories have been proposed to …