Posted on 04/19/2016 11:42:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Simulated summertime (June-August) average temperature changes in 536 CE due to the stratospheric aerosol cloud resulting from an unknown volcanic eruption reconstructed here based on contemporary written records and ice core sulfate measurements. The simulated temperature changes, ranging from 1-3 ° C over Europe, show good agreement with estimates from two tree-ring temperature reconstructions based on trees in Northern Scandinavia.
No, I'm not kidding.
King Arthur II sailed to America, was killed in Kentucky, buried in Wales
I guess 'Christian Era' is easier to understand for folks than Anno Domini.
Another very interesting article. Especially considering the volcanic blasts we’ve had of late.
‘Christian Era’
That sounds even better than Anno Domini; most of us can’t read Latin ;^D
Arthur’s Comet?
I think it is “Common Era” not “Christian Era”
But I may be wrong
And BCE is "Before Current era."
Yes, they even took Christ out of our timelines now.
Only for liberal idiots in Ivory Towers.
I make fun of people who use the term because it is fun and because they deserve it.
The “C” is still there. Use what it really means and never apologize for it.
I think this is the first article I’ve ever seen on the crisis of late antiquity and the transition to the Middle Ages that ignores the barbarian invasions and the collapse of the western Roman Empire, which occurred in the century preceding the volcanic cloud.
The anti-Christians can call it what they want. For the rest of us, we define it as the Christian Era, or AD (Anno Domini, Year of our Lord)
And so when does CE begin? I didn’t get the memo that we changed the convention of year designation.
It is, but I still use A.D. and B.C.
screw the anti-Christian jerks :p
The Roman Empire was mostly broken into three (or more) independent states during the 3rd century, each ruled by its own emperor. The chunk of the empire ruled from Rome spent half of that century changing the supreme leader every couple of years on average. The British school about this attributes the political turmoil to "debased" currency, which is ridiculous. Economic activity actually took off during that time, with a rise in what we would call the middle class, prefiguring the late-medieval and post-medieval developments in Europe. Trade by sea (Indian Ocean) with India (which had been continuous throughout Hellenistic times, at least) and (via intermediaries) with China continued into the early 6th c. Trade across the intra-roman borders boomed while tax receipts fell. It's probably most accurate to call the crisis political, as the economic casualties appear to have been the rulers. Ingress from non-Roman barbarian areas was serious, and finally effectively addressed by Aurelian, who also knocked off his rival emperors and reunited the Empire.
Tierra Blanca Joven layer:
http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/aag-eruption-el-salvadors-ilopango-explains-ad-536-cooling
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