Carnian Pluvial Episode?

.....the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

"Ever hear of the “Carnian Pluvial Episode”?
Neither had geologists, until they invented it.
Geologists submitting papers to this months Journal of the Geological Society are all excited. They just created a new geological episode. Yes; they had a meeting about it last year, and decided it was real, even though it wasn’t real until they invented it.

According to the lead paper by Dal Corso et al, “The Carnian pluvial episode (Late Triassic): new insights into this important time of global environmental and biological change,”

The Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) is a global climate change that occurred in the early Late Triassic, a time of major biological turnovers between two of the largest

The Real "CPE"

mass extinctions, at the end of the Permian and at the end of the Triassic, respectively. It is marked by severe extinction among important marine groups such as ammonoids and conodonts, and rapid radiation of key taxa on land and in the ocean, e.g. dinosaurs and pelagic calcifier.

As you can see, this new thing even obtained its own acronym: CPE.

The Carnian Pluvial Episode: from discovery, through obscurity, to acceptance (Simms and Ruffell, Journal of the Geological Society). This paper tells how science sausage is made. Did geologists “discover” the Carnian Pluvial Episode, or “invent” it?

The discovery of the Carnian Pluvial Episode arose through a chance conversation bringing together two seemingly unrelated strands of research: the extinction of some Triassic crinoids and the stratigraphy of the non-marine Mercia Mudstone Group. Investigations revealed a hitherto unrecognized period of climate change seemingly linked to a largely overlooked episode of biotic turnover. Ignored for more than a decade, an upsurge of interest in recent years has validated our original findings and answered some of the key questions concerning its extent and ultimate cause.

So it is “settled science” today, even though it languished in “obscurity” earlier. Why? Because a certain number of scientists thought it deserved “acceptance” after a chance conversation got them talking it.

If it was real, notice that it was

(1) global and

(2) wet.

 

The environment was stressed, they say. There was a major turnover of biota, with many organisms caught in a “sharp disappearance.” It might have involved impacts of asteroids from space.
To the extent they are finding evidence of catastrophe, creationists have a better answer: the Genesis Flood." CEH