Scott...Read Baillie's book last year......
Exodus to Arthur...........excellent read
Dark Age Disaster
Tree Rings Suggest Catastrophe Triggered Dark Ages
L O N D O N, Sept. 8 — Something catastrophic
occurred on Earth 1,500 years ago that may have
led to the Dark Ages and coincided with the end
of the Roman Empire and the death of King
Arthur, a Northern Irish scientist said today.
It could have been a bombardment of cometary debris
or the eruption of a super volcano.
But whatever it was, it is clearly etched in the chronology
of tree rings from around the world, according to Professor
Mike Baillie of Queen’s University in Belfast.
Written in Trees, Not Books
The global environmental event that occurred around A.D.
540 is not recorded in any history books. But the tree ring
chronologies compiled from samples of trees, some
preserved in bogs, which date back thousands of years,
single out something that was quite extraordinary.
“It was a catastrophic environmental downturn that
shows up in trees all over the world,” Baillie told a news
conference at the British Association for the Advancement of
Science conference. “This event is clear in the tree ring
records.”
The height of a tree is indicative of the quality of soil it is
growing in but the rings hold clues about past climate
conditions and have been used to date events in the past.
They correctly recorded the year without a summer in
the North American region in 1816 and the eruption of
various volcanoes around the world.
Baillie believes the slowdown of tree growth recorded in
the rings around A.D. 540 was due to a bombardment of
cometary debris which happened around the time of King
Arthur’s death, the end of the Roman Empire and the
beginning of the Dark Ages.
Sky on Fire
Traditional myths recorded in 13th-century texts refer to a
comet in Gaul around A.D. 540, when the sky seemed to be
on fire, according to Baillie.
“These myths hint strongly at a bombardment vector for
the environmental downturn but are almost universally
dismissed as fiction or fantasy by academics,” he said.
Baillie is appealing to historians to accept that something
terrible happened around 540 and to find a record of it.
“I am calling for a debate by scientists and historians on
how to approach the evidence for catastrophic events of this
kind which were previously not known to have taken place,”
he added. |
