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Comment on: Comment on "Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet" Yi Liu et al

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2014-01-30 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Geophysics

Abstract

Unfortunately, Liu et al. contains a number of errors and omissions which compromise its conclusions. These have to do with the amount of 14C which is necessary to deposit in the atmosphere in order to see a perturbation like that in 774 AD, and the ability of a comet to do so.

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@article{arxiv.1401.7276,
  title  = {Comment on: Comment on "Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet" Yi Liu et al},
  author = {Adrian L. Melott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7276},
  year   = {2014}
}