Posted on 11/16/2018 6:12:12 AM PST by artichokegrower
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
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Well then, stop bein' a witch! Duh. ;^)
Well, I attended Julliard...
That's about 1100 or 1200 years before the invention of the thermometer...........Wonder how they recorded it.
This was a pretty lousy year at the onset of the Dark Ages, but I don’t know I could call a year during Justinian’s reign the worst ever. Hagia Sophia opened the next year.
Maybe we all sense we’re really going into a ‘cooling time’... and that’s gonna have big problems for the human race. Don’t know if it’s lack of sunspots or a few volcano eruptions, but we’re a little worrried.
Not all of them, I’d bet, but I’m mainly interested in not having to use one myself.
The wealthy had them and so did the military outposts in faraway Britain. The Romans were experts at moving water, even getting it to run uphill........................
“An 72-meter ice core drilled in the Colle Gnifetti Glacier in the Swiss Alps entombs more”
Is that a dodecahedron? Dumb question, I fear, but why isn’t it a cylinder?
Interesting timeline of events. It be even more interesting if you could post some photos or videos.
Not saying you’re wrong, so did the Sumerians, or Babylonians, or Cretans or somebody.
Didn’t do the average joe much good. And even so, medieval Europe lagged behind.
It was a joke.
That’s why it’s called ‘The Dark Ages’......izzat racis?..................
Global cooling also locks up a lot of water in the ice, rather than rain to water plants and for humans to drink.
Read Issac Asimov’s ‘The Dead Past’.................
I think the Blizzard of 1888 and similar bad weather elsewhere was the last gasp. In 1815, Tambora (5 mile diameter crater)was an even larger eruption giving us the Year With No Summer in New England and elsewhere, 1816. Also there were major floods in North America in 1821/22. After Pinatubo (3 mile crater)in 1991 the weather was crazy for up to 5 or 6 year. I remember there was one ice storm in New England/Canada that coated trees and power lines with 1” of ice with major destruction and collapse. I forget the year. There might not be a major crater in Iceland for that period. A major eruption there in 1783 was at the Laki Fissure. Ben Franklin remarked on the weird weather in Europe where he was in diplomatic service. It also caused crop failures which helped trigger the French Revolution.
Cassiodorus (Roman) also wrote about the strange weather. Swiss Alps were in a good position to record Icelandic eruptions. I suspect more so than Greenland which also has ice cores.
I seem to recall seeing something about Chinese records of that period. It may have been when I was seeking information about Cassiodorus’ writings of the time.
Unfortunately, if global warming is happening it will kill a lot of south Indians and middle easterners. Typical summer temperature in Bhagdad is around 115f. Even worse at times in India/
I can’t post photo’s as Daguerre won’t invent the camera until the early 19th century, which is more than a millennium in the future from the 6th Century.
Forget about videos! Those came 100 years + after the camera!!!
Absolutely!! /s
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