Randall Carlson

And you know what?

That's the kind of scenarios I'm constructing in my mind to try to figure out how this thing could be explained.

Exactly what you just said.

Multiple impacts simultaneously into the ocean and into land.

Because land, what's going to happen?

You're going to create enormous amounts of fire.

Soot into the atmosphere has the same effect of increasing the atmospheric opacity.

Particulate matter, right, that's going to be cooling.

Into the ocean, it's going to inject water vapor.

Water vapor is a greenhouse gas.

That's going to be warming.

So some combination thereof seems to be, in my mind—

how we need to be thinking about this thing.

Exactly what you just said, Aubrey.

Your brain is obviously... You've thought about this some, I think.

And, of course, don't forget about the money involved.

One of the things that I noticed with regards to...

If we go back to the 70s and the 80s, post this, what I was talking about, the energy paradox, then you had the revelation of the great impact that destroyed the dinosaurs, which kind of caused a major shift because for most of the 20th century, geology and models of earth change were

totally into strict gradualism, what is called uniformitarianism.

We don't try to explain what happened in the past without reference to what's going on right now.