On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Leroy Ellenberger wrote:

.............comments by ellenberger. He is correct

> I have contacted one of the authors of this paper who confirms
> my suspicion that IF the solar wind flux had been ten to 100
> times greater than now for at least a century, as Peratt
> believes, THEN such an increase would have affected the
> production of [10]Be and [14]C, whose effect on [10]Be would
> be seen in the profile for [10]Be concentration in the
> Greenland ice. No such effect is seen. 
> 
> Peratt has been very diligent in documenting the provenances
> of petroglyphs and doing laboratory simulations, but he has
> not shown any interest, so far as I am aware, of testing his
> ideas about solar wind flux variation against the physical
> record in the Greenland ice and other relevant proxy records,
> such as tree rings which preserve the [14]C record.
> 
> Then, too, considering that all archaeoastronomers understand
> that observers in the northern hemisphere cannot see the stars
> in the southern sky and at the South Pole (n.b.: Hipparchus,
> observing from Rhodes, could not see any stars further south
> than about 5 degrees below the equator), how come Peratt
> claims that observers in high northern latitudes, where the
> "squatting stick man" petroglyphs are found in positions
> suggesting a viewing to the south, were able to see the
> stupendous aurora impinging on the south magnetic pole?
> 
> There are other problems attending Peratt's revolutionary
> hypothesis, such as the petroglyphs being found on islands in
> the Pacific that were not inhabited until many thousands of
> years after Peratt claims the enhanced solar wind ceased AND
> the aurora extending out from the south pole farther than the
> Earth-Moon distance when the magnetosphere is only about 1/10
> that thickness now and would have been compressed to an even
> smaller thickness when the solar wind flux was ten to 100
> greater than now. But NONE of the "explorers" that Dave has
> recruited into his movement seems to have been bothered by
> such inconsistencies. And Peratt, to judge from his recent
> publications, does not seem to have considered them, either.
> Shame, shame, shame. Where is Peratt's "plan for action" that
> S.J. Gould admonished be formulated by revolutionary thinkers?
> 
> IF the petroglyphs that fascinate Peratt and his fellow
> "cosmic electricians" at kronia.com and thunderbolts.info and
> mythopedia.info were really motivated by something seen in the
> sky, then they might do well to find another phenomenon such
> as the effects of Earth's episodic, energetic interaction with
> the Taurid-Encke complex all during the Holocene, as Victor
> Clube, Bill Napier, Mike Baillie, Moe Mandelkehr and others
> have been elucidating for the past 28 years. Yeah, that's the
> ticket! Is Bruce Mainwaring listening?