Extinction Level Snowfall Event

Places like Switzerland, Russia and Scandinavia are being hit by record levels of snowfall. Three meters of snow has already fallen in various places in Norway, and the winter is far from over.

This is making it hard for animals to survive the winter. Large animals are especially hard hit, as they cannot burrow down into the ground. They have to wade around in the snow.

Obviously, three meter of snow is so much that large animals that have not managed to escape are left stranded.

This made me think about the mysterious disappearance of large animals like the Woolly Mammoth some ten thousand years ago. That particular extinction event appears to have hit animals in the north much harder than animals farther south. It also appears to have hit with stunning swiftness. The remains of Mammoths have been found together in large fields in Siberia, as if they had been suddenly struck down.

A possible explanation to this swift extinction could be a particularly harsh winter, with many times more snow than usual. Imagine fifteen or more meters of snow. That would kill off all big animals for sure, and such an event is not completely unthinkable.

Henrik Svensmark has pointed out in his work that cosmic radiation is linked to cloud cover and precipitation. A season of unusually strong cosmic radiation is all that it would take to produce an extinction level snowfall event.

Other places, farther south would at the same time have experienced exceptional rainfall.

Since cosmic radiation is also related to volcanism and earth quakes, we would in addition to unusually heavy precipitation, have volcanic eruptions, mud slides and earth quakes. Humans living through the event would no doubt tell stories about this for generations to come. The deluge described in the Bible seems to fit this to a tee.

Furthermore, fringe theories on matter and gravity, such as my own Velcro Universe theory of physics, link cosmic radiation to increase in mass. Large animals, already weakened by the snowfall would find themselves further handicapped by an increase in inertia and gravity.

The extinction event happened at the end of the last glaciation period that ended ten thousand years ago. According to Henrik Svensmark, we can assume that Earth's magnetic shield was not very strong. There would be little shielding against cosmic radiation. This means that a gamma ray burst by a nearby supernova could easily have caused all this to happen.

My guess then is that the extinction event that happened ten thousand years ago was due to a supernova which in turn produced unusually heavy precipitation and a small but noticeable jump in inertia and gravity. As a consequence, all the largest mammals living in the northern hemisphere died out in a single season.