June 5, 2002: Geomorphology and Climatology - Ted Bryant
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Tue Apr 15 2025
Description: Art Bell speaks with Professor Ted Bryant, a physical geographer from the University of Wollongong in Australia, about catastrophic tsunami and climate change. Bryant describes how he first stumbled onto tsunami evidence 13 years earlier when he found angular boulders jammed into coastal crevices in locations too sheltered for ordinary storm waves. What began as a small hypothesis grew into the discovery of multiple massive tsunami events preserved in the Australian coastline over thousands of years.The conversation turns to the mechanics of ocean impacts from space objects. Bryant explains that a rock just over half a mile in diameter hitting the Pacific would vaporize billions of tons of water at 5,000 degrees Celsius, generating a forward-moving steam blast capable of incinerating forests, followed by tsunami waves reaching 30 feet or more at distant coastlines. The vaporized water would then return as unprecedented rainfall events, evidence of which Bryant believes he has found in anomalously wide ancient waterfall channels in Australia's Northern Territory.Art reads breaking news that India plans military action in Kashmir within two weeks, and Bryant provides atmospheric analysis of what a nuclear exchange would mean for global fallout patterns. He notes that the 1963 nuclear testing period left a detectable cooling signature in global temperature records, and explains how monsoon circulation and jet stream patterns would carry radiation from South Asia primarily through China and Japan before crossing the Pacific.
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