[artichokegrower]

Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record "a failure of bread from the years 536–539."

It's not global warming but global cooling that will get you.

[moovova]

I remember it as if it were yesterday.

[fwdude]

Coming from a modern historian and archaeologist, you’d think that that was the year conservatism was at an all-time high.

[Fractal Trader]

ping

[jospehm20]

I read a book about this time period. It was interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Catastrophe-Investigation-Origins-Modern-Civilization/dp/0345408764

[Obadiah]

It's not global warming but global cooling that will get you.

Too soon.

[crusty old prospector]

For me, it began with the Obamao inauguration.

[Red Badger]

[moovova]

"The 72-meter-long core entombs more than 2000 years of fallout from volcanoes, Saharan dust storms, and human activities smack in the center of Europe."

Remember those long, long hand-drawn timelines a teacher would tape up on the classroom wall using poster paper and magic markers...spanning centuries of world history? A 72-meter core is the real deal!

[Michael.SF.]

Yes, things were so much better in 537 under Valdimar the Leper.

[CaptainK]

The explosion of Krakatoa in 1883 caused the same kind of global cooling. The Dems would tell us, we need to put a stop to volcanic action within the next 10 years.

Per Wikipedia:
“Average global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius (34 degrees F)in the year following the eruption. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.”

[struggle]

I disagree because Islam had not been invented yet.

[Openurmind]

There is not a whole lot of history shared about that particular 100 years.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

The irony of all ironies...

Many progressives (Georgia Guidestones etc) believe that the Earth can only sustain a human population that numbers in the millions, not billions. They will get there wish only if they are 100% wrong about global warming. Global cooling could indeed kill billions of people... QUICKLY.

[chesley]

Any year before the flush toilet was a bad year.

[dangus]

Well, they don’t call it “The Dark Ages” for nothing. That’s a name accurately suited for the end of the ancient period than for the medieval period.

[G Larry]

They should have interviewed Noah’s next door neighbor.....

[Albion Wilde]

nearly every unusually cold summer over the past 2500 years was preceded by a volcanic eruption. A massive eruption—perhaps in North America, the team suggested—stood out in late 535

Trump's fault.

[dangus]

It’s an odd year to choose. It was kinda the year things STARTED to go bad.

[P.O.E.]

I'm not going back. You can't make me

[Mr Rogers]

Was that the year Claudius Trumpus became Emperor?