Charles (Chuck) Bryant

OK, I did not know about it.

You say that as if it was just on the tip of my tongue, which I appreciate.

Yeah, so it was very icy.

There were huge ice sheets covering a lot of Earth, like most of North America, northern Europe and Asia.

And as we'll see, a lot of the YD has affected the northern hemisphere much more than the southern, but also weird things happen in the southern hemisphere that don't quite jive.

That's why it's such a kind of a strange mystery.

But lots of ice everywhere.

We had barren plains, very harsh conditions.

We had things like, you know, woolly mammoths, like ice loving creatures dwelling the earth.

And, you know, human populations that were sparse and scattered and constantly kind of moving around trying to survive.

Yeah, and it became, you know, not terribly unlike what we're looking at now.

There was a jump in temperatures that was, you know, kind of close-ish to today.

And this was called the, I never know how to pronounce.

It's an umlaut.

Okay.

I mean, I guess.

We call it the null set because it looks like a zero with a slash through it.

So call it that.

I mean, we don't really call it that, but that's what it looks like.

Pronounce it like that.