Episode

1660: "The Adams Event"

Podcast: Interesting Things with JC
Published: May 22, 2026
Duration seconds: 165
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Interesting Things with JC #1660: "The Adams Event" – A 42,000-year-old kauri tree held a carbon record from the Laschamps Excursion, when Earth’s magnetic field weakened, cosmic rays increased, and the upper atmosphere may have changed while the tree kept the evidence ring by ring.